Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... known to us as direct history , but so thoroughly is this notion of development at home in our minds , that by means of it we reconstruct lost history without scruple , trusting to general knowledge of the principles of human thought ...
... known to us as direct history , but so thoroughly is this notion of development at home in our minds , that by means of it we reconstruct lost history without scruple , trusting to general knowledge of the principles of human thought ...
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... known . Rudimentary as the science of culture still is , the symptoms are becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct cause ...
... known . Rudimentary as the science of culture still is , the symptoms are becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct cause ...
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... known to history , with the aid of archæological inference from the remains of prehistoric tribes , it seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be regarded as a ...
... known to history , with the aid of archæological inference from the remains of prehistoric tribes , it seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be regarded as a ...
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... known savage tribe would not be improved by judicious civilization , is a proposition which no moralist would dare to make ; while the general tenour of the evidence goes far to justify the view that on the whole the civilized man is ...
... known savage tribe would not be improved by judicious civilization , is a proposition which no moralist would dare to make ; while the general tenour of the evidence goes far to justify the view that on the whole the civilized man is ...
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... known historic course what its prehistoric course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ethnographic research . Gibbon in his ' Roman Empire ' expresses in a few vigorous sentences his ...
... known historic course what its prehistoric course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ethnographic research . Gibbon in his ' Roman Empire ' expresses in a few vigorous sentences his ...
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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