Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive ir development ; but the more highly educated world has rejected the ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants .
... enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive ir development ; but the more highly educated world has rejected the ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants .
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Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births , but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of his cruel son ...
Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births , but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of his cruel son ...
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It is doubtful how far the lower psychology entertains at all an absolute 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 ...
It is doubtful how far the lower psychology entertains at all an absolute 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 ...
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... as Chinese pay their respects to kindred spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; ' so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes -- spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic ...
... as Chinese pay their respects to kindred spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; ' so multitudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes -- spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic ...
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Not to discuss here the general subject of the funeral rites of mankind , of which only part of the multifarious details are directly relevant to the present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of ...
Not to discuss here the general subject of the funeral rites of mankind , of which only part of the multifarious details are directly relevant to the present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of ...
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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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