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... while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance ...
... while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance ...
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In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
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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 , where it may be seen damp and ...
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 , where it may be seen damp and ...
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As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
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This comes more clearly into view among the more civilized 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 ...
This comes more clearly into view among the more civilized 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 ...
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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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