Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the cropping up of similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student ...
... given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the cropping up of similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student ...
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... 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 snatched away by sudden ...
... 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 snatched away by sudden ...
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... certain prominence 1 Gibbon , ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ' ch . xxxviii . 2 De Maistre , ' Soirées de St. Pétersbourg , ' vol . ii . p . 150 . given to it on account of its considerable hold on PROGRESS AND DEGRADATION . 35.
... certain prominence 1 Gibbon , ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ' ch . xxxviii . 2 De Maistre , ' Soirées de St. Pétersbourg , ' vol . ii . p . 150 . given to it on account of its considerable hold on PROGRESS AND DEGRADATION . 35.
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... given to it on account of its considerable hold on public opinion . As to definite evidence , however , it does not seem to have any ethnological basis whatever . Indeed , I scarcely think that a stronger counter - persuasion could be ...
... given to it on account of its considerable hold on public opinion . As to definite evidence , however , it does not seem to have any ethnological basis whatever . Indeed , I scarcely think that a stronger counter - persuasion could be ...
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... given a higher and a lower civilization existing among two races , a mixed race between the two may take to the lower or an intermediate condition . Degeneration probably operates even more actively in the lower than in the higher ...
... given a higher and a lower civilization existing among two races , a mixed race between the two may take to the lower or an intermediate condition . Degeneration probably operates even more actively in the lower than in the higher ...
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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