Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... on fingers and toes - Adoption of foreign Numeral- words - Evidence of development of Arithmetic from a low original level of Culture PAGE 112 . 160 200 240 CHAPTER VIII . MYTHOLOGY . Mythic fancy based , like X CONTENTS .
... on fingers and toes - Adoption of foreign Numeral- words - Evidence of development of Arithmetic from a low original level of Culture PAGE 112 . 160 200 240 CHAPTER VIII . MYTHOLOGY . Mythic fancy based , like X CONTENTS .
Page xi
... fancy based , like other thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into Allegory and History - Ethnological import ...
... fancy based , like other thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into Allegory and History - Ethnological import ...
Page 18
... fancy at once a development from stage to stage , and a production of uniformity of result from uni- formity of cause . Here , as elsewhere , causeless spontaneity is seen to recede farther and farther into shelter within the dark ...
... fancy at once a development from stage to stage , and a production of uniformity of result from uni- formity of cause . Here , as elsewhere , causeless spontaneity is seen to recede farther and farther into shelter within the dark ...
Page 34
... fancy are rare and spontaneous produc- tions ; and the genius of Homer , or Cicero , or Newton , would excite less admiration , if they could be created by the will of a prince , or the lessons of a preceptor . 2. The benefits of law ...
... fancy are rare and spontaneous produc- tions ; and the genius of Homer , or Cicero , or Newton , would excite less admiration , if they could be created by the will of a prince , or the lessons of a preceptor . 2. The benefits of law ...
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... fancy ourselves looking on Civilization , as in personal figure she traverses the world ; we see her lingering or resting by the way , and often deviating into paths that bring her toiling back to where she had passed by long ago ; but ...
... fancy ourselves looking on Civilization , as in personal figure she traverses the world ; we see her lingering or resting by the way , and often deviating into paths that bring her toiling back to where she had passed by long ago ; but ...
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