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... apparently original, belongs especially to the lower races — Transitional
theories — Retribution-theory, apparently derived, belongs especially to the
higher races — Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture
— Survey ...
... apparently original, belongs especially to the lower races — Transitional
theories — Retribution-theory, apparently derived, belongs especially to the
higher races — Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture
— Survey ...
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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 to
investigate one ...
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 to
investigate one ...
Page 44
... Stars — Heaven — Historical course of belief as to such localization — Nature
of Future Life — Continuance-theory, apparently original, belongs especially to
the lowerracea — Transitional theories — Retribution-theory, apparently derived,
...
... Stars — Heaven — Historical course of belief as to such localization — Nature
of Future Life — Continuance-theory, apparently original, belongs especially to
the lowerracea — Transitional theories — Retribution-theory, apparently derived,
...
Page 54
... to the saints of the old covenant, imprisoned in the limbo of the fathers, is
narrated in full in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, and is made there to rest
upon a legend which belongs to the present group of human visits to the other
world.
... to the saints of the old covenant, imprisoned in the limbo of the fathers, is
narrated in full in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, and is made there to rest
upon a legend which belongs to the present group of human visits to the other
world.
Page 69
1 To the same belief belongs another striking mythic feature. The idea of
volcanos being mouths of the under-world seems not unexampled among the
lower races, for we hear of certain New Zealanders casting their dead down into
a crater.3 ...
1 To the same belief belongs another striking mythic feature. The idea of
volcanos being mouths of the under-world seems not unexampled among the
lower races, for we hear of certain New Zealanders casting their dead down into
a crater.3 ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1873 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Jun 2007 |
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