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... to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL .
... to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL .
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In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
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... than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks i Oldfield in .
... than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks i Oldfield in .
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It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics .
It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics .
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... at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture .
... at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture .
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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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