Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches as new instances of an already established rule . Should it seem to any readers that my attempt to reach this limit sometimes leads to the heaping up of too cumbrous ...
... law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches as new instances of an already established rule . Should it seem to any readers that my attempt to reach this limit sometimes leads to the heaping up of too cumbrous ...
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... Laws -Method of classification and discussion of the evidence - Connexion of successive stages of culture by Permanence , Modification , and Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work CHAPTER II . THE DEVELOPMENT OF ...
... Laws -Method of classification and discussion of the evidence - Connexion of successive stages of culture by Permanence , Modification , and Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work CHAPTER II . THE DEVELOPMENT OF ...
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... laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into Allegory and History - Ethnological import and treatment of Myth - Myth to be studied in actual existence and growth among modern ...
... laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into Allegory and History - Ethnological import and treatment of Myth - Myth to be studied in actual existence and growth among modern ...
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... Laws -Method of classification and discussion of the evidence - Connexion of successive stages of culture by Permanence , Modification , and Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work . CULTURE or Civilization , taken in ...
... Laws -Method of classification and discussion of the evidence - Connexion of successive stages of culture by Permanence , Modification , and Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work . CULTURE or Civilization , taken in ...
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... laws , the definite sequence of cause and effect through which every fact depends on what has gone before it , and acts upon what is to come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal ...
... laws , the definite sequence of cause and effect through which every fact depends on what has gone before it , and acts upon what is to come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal ...
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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