Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... examples . The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument , and the limit of needful detail is only reached when each group so displays its general law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches ...
... examples . The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument , and the limit of needful detail is only reached when each group so displays its general law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches ...
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... examples from a list of hundreds , and the ethnographer's business is to classify such details with a view to making out their distribution in geography and history , and the relations which exist among them . What this task is like ...
... examples from a list of hundreds , and the ethnographer's business is to classify such details with a view to making out their distribution in geography and history , and the relations which exist among them . What this task is like ...
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... examples of the kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel revolved by means of a spring against a piece of pyrites till a spark ...
... examples of the kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel revolved by means of a spring against a piece of pyrites till a spark ...
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... examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved . Thus , I know an old Somersetshire woman whose hand - loom dates from the time before the introduction of the ' flying shuttle , ' which new - fangled ...
... examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved . Thus , I know an old Somersetshire woman whose hand - loom dates from the time before the introduction of the ' flying shuttle , ' which new - fangled ...
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... example replaces that given in former editions . Another example may be found in his explanation of the origin of deodand , bk . I. , ch . 8 , as designed , in the blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were ...
... example replaces that given in former editions . Another example may be found in his explanation of the origin of deodand , bk . I. , ch . 8 , as designed , in the blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were ...
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