Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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or Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a “ cycle of necessity ” through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man ...
or Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a “ cycle of necessity ” through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man ...
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Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
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... races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer .
... races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer .
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But how far the preservation of these remains may be connected with an idea of bodily resurrection , whether among the native races of America , or in ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for ...
But how far the preservation of these remains may be connected with an idea of bodily resurrection , whether among the native races of America , or in ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for ...
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In the ancient and mediĉval world , men habitually invoked supernatural aid beyond such material shifts as these , calling in the priest to lay or banish intruding ghosts , nor is this branch of the exorcist's art even yet forgotten .
In the ancient and mediĉval world , men habitually invoked supernatural aid beyond such material shifts as these , calling in the priest to lay or banish intruding ghosts , nor is this branch of the exorcist's art even yet forgotten .
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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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