Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page 4
... look unaccountable , the rule is to wait and watch in hope that the key to the problem may some day be found . This man's observation may have been as narrow as his in- ferences are crude and prejudiced , but nevertheless he has been an ...
... look unaccountable , the rule is to wait and watch in hope that the key to the problem may some day be found . This man's observation may have been as narrow as his in- ferences are crude and prejudiced , but nevertheless he has been an ...
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... Look at the modern European peasant using his hatchet and his hoe , see his food boiling or roasting over the log - fire , observe the exact place which beer holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the ...
... Look at the modern European peasant using his hatchet and his hoe , see his food boiling or roasting over the log - fire , observe the exact place which beer holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the ...
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... look unaccountable enough till one has seen the intermediate stages through which they came down from the more serviceable wide collars , such as Milton wears in his portrait , and which gave their name to the ' band - box ' they used ...
... look unaccountable enough till one has seen the intermediate stages through which they came down from the more serviceable wide collars , such as Milton wears in his portrait , and which gave their name to the ' band - box ' they used ...
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... look modern life in the face and com- prehend it by mere inspection , is a philosophy whose weak- ness can easily be tested . Imagine any one explaining the trivial saying , ' a little bird told me , ' without knowing of the old belief ...
... look modern life in the face and com- prehend it by mere inspection , is a philosophy whose weak- ness can easily be tested . Imagine any one explaining the trivial saying , ' a little bird told me , ' without knowing of the old belief ...
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... look with the contempt of past centuries on evidence derived from the lower forms of life , deeming the structure of mere invertebrate creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but ...
... look with the contempt of past centuries on evidence derived from the lower forms of life , deeming the structure of mere invertebrate creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but ...
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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