Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature , that our thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion of ...
... seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature , that our thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion of ...
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... seems but hardly able to cope . Yet there are departments of it which , though difficult enough , seem comparatively accessible . If the field of enquiry be narrowed from History as a whole to that branch of it which is here called ...
... seems but hardly able to cope . Yet there are departments of it which , though difficult enough , seem comparatively accessible . If the field of enquiry be narrowed from History as a whole to that branch of it which is here called ...
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... seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the cropping up of similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ...
... seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the cropping up of similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ...
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... seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be ... seem remains of an early state of the human race at large . If this hypothesis be true , then , notwithstanding the ...
... seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be ... seem remains of an early state of the human race at large . If this hypothesis be true , then , notwithstanding the ...
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... would perhaps have been recanted in favour of a more hopeful view . And it seems to be with the philosophy of remote human life somewhat as with the study of the nature of the celestial bodies . The 24 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... would perhaps have been recanted in favour of a more hopeful view . And it seems to be with the philosophy of remote human life somewhat as with the study of the nature of the celestial bodies . The 24 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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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