Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... less spontaneity , let us take this admitted existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing ...
... less spontaneity , let us take this admitted existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing ...
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... less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of unsifted talk , a man preju- diced or even wilfully deceitful ? ' This question is , indeed , one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his ...
... less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of unsifted talk , a man preju- diced or even wilfully deceitful ? ' This question is , indeed , one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his ...
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... less likely that several people in several places should have made it wrongly . This being so , it seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the ...
... less likely that several people in several places should have made it wrongly . This being so , it seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the ...
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... that the new material is suited to a handier and less wasteful pattern . And thus , in the other branches of our history , there will come again . and again into view series of facts which may be STAGES OF CULTURE . 15.
... that the new material is suited to a handier and less wasteful pattern . And thus , in the other branches of our history , there will come again . and again into view series of facts which may be STAGES OF CULTURE . 15.
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... less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the fashion of the clothes men wear . The ridiculous little tails of the German postilion's coat ...
... less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the fashion of the clothes men wear . The ridiculous little tails of the German postilion's coat ...
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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