Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... reason . ' Nor , again , in studying the structure and habits of plants and animals , or in investigating the lower ... reasons of this state of the popular judgment are not far to seek . There are many who would willingly accept a ...
... reason . ' Nor , again , in studying the structure and habits of plants and animals , or in investigating the lower ... reasons of this state of the popular judgment are not far to seek . There are many who would willingly accept a ...
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... reason for everything in life , and that where events 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 ...
... reason for everything in life , and that where events 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 ...
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... reason upon relics of prehistoric races of whose very names and languages we are hopelessly ignorant . Now these may seem at the first glance sadly indefinite and unpromising materials for a scientific enquiry . But in fact they are ...
... reason upon relics of prehistoric races of whose very names and languages we are hopelessly ignorant . Now these may seem at the first glance sadly indefinite and unpromising materials for a scientific enquiry . But in fact they are ...
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... reason why they ought to do so . Now collec- tions of ethnographic evidence bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain traditions , beliefs , and usages , are peculiarly liable to be thus ...
... reason why they ought to do so . Now collec- tions of ethnographic evidence bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain traditions , beliefs , and usages , are peculiarly liable to be thus ...
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... the Norse Tales , so reasonably traces its origin . Attempts to explain by the light of reason things which want the light of history to show their meaning , may be instanced from Blackstone's Commentaries DEVELOPMENT . 19.
... the Norse Tales , so reasonably traces its origin . Attempts to explain by the light of reason things which want the light of history to show their meaning , may be instanced from Blackstone's Commentaries DEVELOPMENT . 19.
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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