Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... express distance and difference - Children's Language- Sound - words as related to Sense - words - Language an original product of the lower Culture CHAPTER VII . THE ART OF COUNTING . Ideas of Number derived from experience - State of ...
... express distance and difference - Children's Language- Sound - words as related to Sense - words - Language an original product of the lower Culture CHAPTER VII . THE ART OF COUNTING . Ideas of Number derived from experience - State of ...
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... express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a differ- ent way other partial results of the general life of a ...
... express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a differ- ent way other partial results of the general life of a ...
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... express themselves by declaring that they have a month's mind ' to it , can have no conception of the hopeless nonsense they are making of the old term of the ' month's mind , ' which was really the monthly service for a dead man's soul ...
... express themselves by declaring that they have a month's mind ' to it , can have no conception of the hopeless nonsense they are making of the old term of the ' month's mind , ' which was really the monthly service for a dead man's soul ...
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... express like meanings , then we may reasonably suppose that we are not deluding ourselves in thinking such words highly appro- priate to their purpose . They are words which answer the conditions of original language , conforming as ...
... express like meanings , then we may reasonably suppose that we are not deluding ourselves in thinking such words highly appro- priate to their purpose . They are words which answer the conditions of original language , conforming as ...
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... expressing feeling ; the tone which to us expresses surprise or anger might come to express pleasure , and so forth . As it is , children learn by early experience that such and such a tone 166 EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE .
... expressing feeling ; the tone which to us expresses surprise or anger might come to express pleasure , and so forth . As it is , children learn by early experience that such and such a tone 166 EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE .
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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