Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... practices and counter- practices belong to earlier culture - Spiritualism has its source in early stages of culture , in close connexion with witchcraft - Spirit- rapping and Spirit - writing - Rising in the air - Performances of tied ...
... practices and counter- practices belong to earlier culture - Spiritualism has its source in early stages of culture , in close connexion with witchcraft - Spirit- rapping and Spirit - writing - Rising in the air - Performances of tied ...
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... practices as the various kinds of sacrifice to the ghosts of the dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the ... practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu- tion of these things , and their ...
... practices as the various kinds of sacrifice to the ghosts of the dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the ... practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu- tion of these things , and their ...
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... habits of old - world life may be modified into new - world forms still powerful for good and evil . Sometimes old thoughts and practices will burst out afresh , to the amazement of a world 16 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... habits of old - world life may be modified into new - world forms still powerful for good and evil . Sometimes old thoughts and practices will burst out afresh , to the amazement of a world 16 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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... their minds to master the general principles of savage religion will ever again think it ridiculous , or the knowledge of it superfluous to the rest of mankind . Far from its beliefs and practices being 22 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... their minds to master the general principles of savage religion will ever again think it ridiculous , or the knowledge of it superfluous to the rest of mankind . Far from its beliefs and practices being 22 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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... practices being a rubbish - heap of miscellaneous folly , they are consistent and logical in so high a degree as to begin , as soon as even roughly classified , to display the principles of their forma- tion and development ; and these ...
... practices being a rubbish - heap of miscellaneous folly , they are consistent and logical in so high a degree as to begin , as soon as even roughly classified , to display the principles of their forma- tion and development ; and these ...
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