Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... things . ' To many educated minds there 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 ...
... things . ' To many educated minds there 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 ...
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... things will nevertheless pass much of his own life in studying the motives which lead to human action , seeking to attain his wishes through them , framing in his mind theories of personal character , reckoning what are likely to be the ...
... things will nevertheless pass much of his own life in studying the motives which lead to human action , seeking to attain his wishes through them , framing in his mind theories of personal character , reckoning what are likely to be the ...
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... things which have altered little in a long course of centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded ...
... things which have altered little in a long course of centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded ...
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... things , and their transmission from region to region , have to be studied as the naturalist studies the geography of his botanical and zoological species . Just as certain plants and animals are peculiar to certain districts , so it is ...
... things , and their transmission from region to region , have to be studied as the naturalist studies the geography of his botanical and zoological species . Just as certain plants and animals are peculiar to certain districts , so it is ...
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... The possibility of intentional or unin- tentional mystification is often barred by such a state of things as that a similar statement is made in two remote lands , by two witnesses , of whom A lived CORRESPONDENCE OF EVIDENCE . 9.
... The possibility of intentional or unin- tentional mystification is often barred by such a state of things as that a similar statement is made in two remote lands , by two witnesses , of whom A lived CORRESPONDENCE OF EVIDENCE . 9.
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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