Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page xi
... existence and growth among modern savages and barbarians - Original sources of Myth - Early doctrines of general animation of Nature - Personification of Sun , Moon , and Stars ; Water - spout , Sand - pillar , Rainbow , Waterfall ...
... existence and growth among modern savages and barbarians - Original sources of Myth - Early doctrines of general animation of Nature - Personification of Sun , Moon , and Stars ; Water - spout , Sand - pillar , Rainbow , Waterfall ...
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... existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing success , its quest of laws of nature . Nor ...
... existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing success , its quest of laws of nature . Nor ...
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... existence of a philosophy of history . Should any one deny the possibility of thus establishing historical laws , the answer is ready with which Boswell in such a case turned on Johnson : Then , sir , you would reduce all history to no ...
... existence of a philosophy of history . Should any one deny the possibility of thus establishing historical laws , the answer is ready with which Boswell in such a case turned on Johnson : Then , sir , you would reduce all history to no ...
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... existence of a firmament , should have sacrificed slaves and goods to the ghosts of the departed , should have handed down traditions of giants slaying monsters and men turning into beasts - all this is ground for holding that such ...
... existence of a firmament , should have sacrificed slaves and goods to the ghosts of the departed , should have handed down traditions of giants slaying monsters and men turning into beasts - all this is ground for holding that such ...
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... existence has been to pass from a savage to a civilized state . Now all must admit a great part of this assertion to be not only truth , but truism . Referred to direct history , a great section of it proves to belong not to the domain ...
... existence has been to pass from a savage to a civilized state . Now all must admit a great part of this assertion to be not only truth , but truism . Referred to direct history , a great section of it proves to belong not to the domain ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu