Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the nearest haunted house , and of the farmer's niece who was bewitched with knots in her inside till she fell into fits and died . If we choose out in this way ...
... holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the nearest haunted house , and of the farmer's niece who was bewitched with knots in her inside till she fell into fits and died . If we choose out in this way ...
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... hold an opinion , or practise a custom , is by no means necessarily a reason why they ought to do so . Now collec- tions of ethnographic evidence bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain ...
... hold an opinion , or practise a custom , is by no means necessarily a reason why they ought to do so . Now collec- tions of ethnographic evidence bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain ...
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... holds its place among the vulgar as a real cause of events otherwise unaccountable , while to educated men it has long con- sciously meant nothing but this ignorance itself . It is only when men fail to see the line of connexion in ...
... holds its place among the vulgar as a real cause of events otherwise unaccountable , while to educated men it has long con- sciously meant nothing but this ignorance itself . It is only when men fail to see the line of connexion in ...
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... hold on past events , treating it as an isolated fact to be simply disposed of by some plausible explanation . In carrying on the great task of rational ethnography , the investigation of the causes which have produced the 1 Blackstone ...
... hold on past events , treating it as an isolated fact to be simply disposed of by some plausible explanation . In carrying on the great task of rational ethnography , the investigation of the causes which have produced the 1 Blackstone ...
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... hold most strongly that the general course of civilization , as measured along the scale of races from savages to ourselves , is progress towards the benefit of mankind , must admit many and manifold ex- ceptions . Industrial and ...
... hold most strongly that the general course of civilization , as measured along the scale of races from savages to ourselves , is progress towards the benefit of mankind , must admit many and manifold ex- ceptions . Industrial and ...
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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