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... whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls— Localization of the Future Life - Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol -- Sun ...
... whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls— Localization of the Future Life - Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol -- Sun ...
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... through barbaric to civilized faiths — Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution 304 . CHAPTER XVIII .
... through barbaric to civilized faiths — Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution 304 . CHAPTER XVIII .
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... Social , and Political Philosophy - Language - Mythology - Ethics and Law- Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 443 .
... Social , and Political Philosophy - Language - Mythology - Ethics and Law- Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 443 .
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In investigating the doctrine of Transmigration , it will be well first to trace its position among the lower races , and afterwards to follow its developments , so far as they extend in the higher civilization .
In investigating the doctrine of Transmigration , it will be well first to trace its position among the lower races , and afterwards to follow its developments , so far as they extend in the higher civilization .
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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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| 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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