Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... numerals on the problem of early civilization , the place of myth in the primitive history of the human mind , the development of the animistic philosophy of religion , and the origin of rites and cere- monies , have been discussed in ...
... numerals on the problem of early civilization , the place of myth in the primitive history of the human mind , the development of the animistic philosophy of religion , and the origin of rites and cere- monies , have been discussed in ...
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... Numeral - words among low tribes -Counting by fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from ...
... Numeral - words among low tribes -Counting by fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from ...
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... numerals , the conjugation of a verb , are things which each express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a ...
... numerals , the conjugation of a verb , are things which each express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a ...
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... numerals through the primitive stage of counting on their fingers , we find a certain ethnographic interest in the games which teach this earliest numeration . The New Zealand game of ' ti ' is described as played by counting on the ...
... numerals through the primitive stage of counting on their fingers , we find a certain ethnographic interest in the games which teach this earliest numeration . The New Zealand game of ' ti ' is described as played by counting on the ...
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... numeral 5 under the strangely - varied forms of lima , rima , dima , nima , and hima . Changes of this sort have acted so widely and regularly , that since the enuncia- tion of Grimm's law their study has become a main part of philology ...
... numeral 5 under the strangely - varied forms of lima , rima , dima , nima , and hima . Changes of this sort have acted so widely and regularly , that since the enuncia- tion of Grimm's law their study has become a main part of philology ...
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