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Page 55
... 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 . Echoes in mediĉval
legend of such exploring expeditions to the world below still linger faintly in the ...
... 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 . Echoes in mediĉval
legend of such exploring expeditions to the world below still linger faintly in the ...
Page 84
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 servile one
will ...
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 servile one
will ...
Page 104
Now this theory of the course of religion in the distant and obscure past is
conformable with experience of its actual history , so far as this lies within our
knowledge . Whether we compare the early Greek with the later Greek , the early
Jew with ...
Now this theory of the course of religion in the distant and obscure past is
conformable with experience of its actual history , so far as this lies within our
knowledge . Whether we compare the early Greek with the later Greek , the early
Jew with ...
Page 112
... counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native
worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still propitiate by offering at his grave the
brandy and cheroots he loved in life . India even carries theory into practice by an
actual ...
... counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native
worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still propitiate by offering at his grave the
brandy and cheroots he loved in life . India even carries theory into practice by an
actual ...
Page 120
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 Commodus .
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 Commodus .
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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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