Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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Here let us once more call to mind the consideration 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 .
Here let us once more call to mind the consideration 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 .
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It is to be borne in 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 ...
It is to be borne in 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 ...
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... the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat . In short , “ in whatever disposition of mind a man accomplishes such and such an act ...
... the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat . In short , “ in whatever disposition of mind a man accomplishes such and such an act ...
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How the Buddhist 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 ...
How the Buddhist 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 ...
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Thy rafters are broken Thy roof - timbers are shattered , My 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 ...
Thy rafters are broken Thy roof - timbers are shattered , My 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 ...
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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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