Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but as an im- portant practical guide to the understanding of the present and the shaping of the future , the investigation into the ...
... creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but as an im- portant practical guide to the understanding of the present and the shaping of the future , the investigation into the ...
Page 138
... creatures the most wretched . But with new enlightenment there came in the very teeth of law and authority a change in European opinion . Toward the end of the seventeenth century the hideous superstition was breaking down among ...
... creatures the most wretched . But with new enlightenment there came in the very teeth of law and authority a change in European opinion . Toward the end of the seventeenth century the hideous superstition was breaking down among ...
Page 140
... creatures belonging to the ancient Stone Age , and the new metal is hateful and hurtful to them . Now as to iron , witches are brought under the same category as elves and nightmares . Iron instruments keep them at bay , and especially ...
... creatures belonging to the ancient Stone Age , and the new metal is hateful and hurtful to them . Now as to iron , witches are brought under the same category as elves and nightmares . Iron instruments keep them at bay , and especially ...
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... creature is spoken to by a sound which seems merely taken from its own common name . If an English countryman meets 1 Arroyo de la Cuesta , ' Gr . of Mutsun Lang . ' p . 39 , in Smithsonian Contr . , vol . iii .; Neapolitan mamma mia ...
... creature is spoken to by a sound which seems merely taken from its own common name . If an English countryman meets 1 Arroyo de la Cuesta , ' Gr . of Mutsun Lang . ' p . 39 , in Smithsonian Contr . , vol . iii .; Neapolitan mamma mia ...
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... creatures understood grammar and syntax , the language could not be more accurately arranged for their ears . Sometimes we have what seem pure interjectional cries . Thus , to encourage the hounds to work , the huntsman is to call to ...
... creatures understood grammar and syntax , the language could not be more accurately arranged for their ears . Sometimes we have what seem pure interjectional cries . Thus , to encourage the hounds to work , the huntsman is to call to ...
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