Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... elaborating in the ' Divina Commedia ' the conceptions of paradise , purgatory , and hell familiar to the actual belief of his age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead .
... elaborating in the ' Divina Commedia ' the conceptions of paradise , purgatory , and hell familiar to the actual belief of his age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead .
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A comparison of doctrines held at various stages of culture may justify a tentative speculation as to their actual sequence in history , favouring the opinion that through such an intermediate stage the doctrine of simple . the more ...
A comparison of doctrines held at various stages of culture may justify a tentative speculation as to their actual sequence in history , favouring the opinion that through such an intermediate stage the doctrine of simple . the more ...
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In conclusion , though theological argument on the actual validity of doctrines relating to the future life can have no place here , it will be well not to pass by without further remark one great practical question which lies fairly ...
In conclusion , though theological argument on the actual validity of doctrines relating to the future life can have no place here , it will be well not to pass by without further remark one great practical question which lies fairly ...
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India even carries theory into practice by an actual manufacture of demons , as witness the two following accounts . A certain brahman , on whose lands a kshatriya raja had built a house , ripped himself up in revenge , and became a ...
India even carries theory into practice by an actual manufacture of demons , as witness the two following accounts . A certain brahman , on whose lands a kshatriya raja had built a house , ripped himself up in revenge , and became a ...
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In classic Europe , apotheosis lies part within the limits of myth , where it was applied to fabled ancestors , and part within the limits of actual history , as where Julius and Augustus shared its honours with the vile Domitian and ...
In classic Europe , apotheosis lies part within the limits of myth , where it was applied to fabled ancestors , and part within the limits of actual history , as where Julius and Augustus shared its honours with the vile Domitian and ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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