Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... suffer still from the same kind of difficulties which beset the wider argument , but they are much diminished . The evidence is no longer so wildly heterogeneous , but may be more simply classified and com- CONNECTED STAGES . 5.
... suffer still from the same kind of difficulties which beset the wider argument , but they are much diminished . The evidence is no longer so wildly heterogeneous , but may be more simply classified and com- CONNECTED STAGES . 5.
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... kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a problem which would complicate the argument , namely , the question of race . For the present purpose it appears both possible and ...
... kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a problem which would complicate the argument , namely , the question of race . For the present purpose it appears both possible and ...
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... kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel revolved by means of a spring against a piece of pyrites till a spark caught the priming ...
... kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel revolved by means of a spring against a piece of pyrites till a spark caught the priming ...
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... speech took its origin among man- kind in the savage state , and the result of the enquiry is that consistently with all known evidence , this may have been the case . From the examination of the Art DEVELOPMENT . 21.
... speech took its origin among man- kind in the savage state , and the result of the enquiry is that consistently with all known evidence , this may have been the case . From the examination of the Art DEVELOPMENT . 21.
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... kind of evidence need be left untouched on the score of remoteness or complexity , of minuteness or triviality . The tendency of modern enquiry is more and more toward the conclusion that if law is anywhere , it is everywhere . To ...
... kind of evidence need be left untouched on the score of remoteness or complexity , of minuteness or triviality . The tendency of modern enquiry is more and more toward the conclusion that if law is anywhere , it is everywhere . To ...
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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