Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... mind the considera- tion which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evi- dence that the lower races believe the ...
... mind the considera- tion which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evi- dence that the lower races believe the ...
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... mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe ...
... mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe ...
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... mind a man accomplishes such and such an act , he shall reap the fruit in a body endowed with such and such a quality . " The recognition of plants as possible receptacles of the transmigrating spirit well illustrates the conception of ...
... mind a man accomplishes such and such an act , he shall reap the fruit in a body endowed with such and such a quality . " The recognition of plants as possible receptacles of the transmigrating spirit well illustrates the conception of ...
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... mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to gain the power of freeing sentient beings from the ...
... mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to gain the power of freeing sentient beings from the ...
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... mind is detached , I have attained to the extinction of desire . " Whether the Buddhists receive the full Hindu doctrine of the migration of the individual soul from birth to birth , or whether they refine away into metaphysical ...
... mind is detached , I have attained to the extinction of desire . " Whether the Buddhists receive the full Hindu doctrine of the migration of the individual soul from birth to birth , or whether they refine away into metaphysical ...
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