Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees ...
... conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees ...
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... conception of plant- souls is to be found in a passage in a 17th century work , which describes certain Brahmans of the Coromandel Coast as eating fruits , but being careful not to pull the plants up by the roots , lest they should ...
... conception of plant- souls is to be found in a passage in a 17th century work , which describes certain Brahmans of the Coromandel Coast as eating fruits , but being careful not to pull the plants up by the roots , lest they should ...
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... conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being afterwards extended by analogy to the souls of animals , plants , etc. , so it ...
... conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being afterwards extended by analogy to the souls of animals , plants , etc. , so it ...
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... conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is instructive ...
... conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is instructive ...
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... conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vagueness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the ...
... conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vagueness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the ...
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