Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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Having thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared ...
Having thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared ...
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In investigating the doctrine of Transmigration , it will be well first to trace its position among the lower races , and afterwards to follow its developments , so far as they extend in the higher civilization .
In investigating the doctrine of Transmigration , it will be well first to trace its position among the lower races , and afterwards to follow its developments , so far as they extend in the higher civilization .
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A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
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Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great ...
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... great branches of the doctrine of future existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to trace historically by comparing the views of lower and Swedenborg , “ The True Christian Religion , ' 13.
... great branches of the doctrine of future existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to trace historically by comparing the views of lower and Swedenborg , “ The True Christian Religion , ' 13.
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