Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page viii
... opinion has here justified the belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not ...
... opinion has here justified the belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not ...
Page xi
... 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 savages and barbarians - Original sources of ...
... 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 savages and barbarians - Original sources of ...
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... opinion . The world at large is scarcely prepared to accept the general study of human life as a branch of natural science , and to carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to ' Ac- count for moral as for natural things ...
... opinion . The world at large is scarcely prepared to accept the general study of human life as a branch of natural science , and to carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to ' Ac- count for moral as for natural things ...
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... opinion patent or latent in men's minds , and strongly affecting their theoretic views of history , though it is not , as a rule , brought prominently forward in systematic reasoning . Indeed the definition of human will , as strictly ...
... opinion patent or latent in men's minds , and strongly affecting their theoretic views of history , though it is not , as a rule , brought prominently forward in systematic reasoning . Indeed the definition of human will , as strictly ...
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... opinions of whole nations , just as , when looking down upon an army from a hill , we forget the individual soldier , whom , in fact , we can scarce distinguish in the mass , while we see each regiment as an organized body , spreading ...
... opinions of whole nations , just as , when looking down upon an army from a hill , we forget the individual soldier , whom , in fact , we can scarce distinguish in the mass , while we see each regiment as an organized body , spreading ...
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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