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... Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes - Adoption of foreign Numeral- words ...
... Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes - Adoption of foreign Numeral- words ...
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... hand , the uniformity which so largely pervades civilization may be ascribed , in great measure , to the uniform action of uniform causes : while on the other hand its various grades may be regarded as stages of development or evolution ...
... hand , the uniformity which so largely pervades civilization may be ascribed , in great measure , to the uniform action of uniform causes : while on the other hand its various grades may be regarded as stages of development or evolution ...
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... hand , and to general likeness in the circumstances of life on the other , this similarity and consistency may no doubt be traced , and they may be studied with especial fitness in comparing races near the same grade of civilization ...
... hand , and to general likeness in the circumstances of life on the other , this similarity and consistency may no doubt be traced , and they may be studied with especial fitness in comparing races near the same grade of civilization ...
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... hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it ...
... hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it ...
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... hand , the philosopher may be so intent upon his general laws of society as to neglect the individual actors of whom that society is made up , and of him it may be said that he cannot see the trees for the forest . We know how arts ...
... hand , the philosopher may be so intent upon his general laws of society as to neglect the individual actors of whom that society is made up , and of him it may be said that he cannot see the trees for the forest . We know how arts ...
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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