Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volumes 1-2Brentano's, 1924 - Animism |
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... America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this ...
... America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this ...
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... America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a matter worthy ...
... America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a matter worthy ...
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... America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits according as they correspond more closely to ...
... America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits according as they correspond more closely to ...
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... America - seems to fit not so well with degradation from a high as with survival from a low civilization . The Irish and the Hebrideans had been for ages under the influence of comparatively high civilization , which nevertheless may ...
... America - seems to fit not so well with degradation from a high as with survival from a low civilization . The Irish and the Hebrideans had been for ages under the influence of comparatively high civilization , which nevertheless may ...
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... America , Father Charlevoix remarks of the Iroquois of the last century , that in old times they used to build their cabins better than other nations , and better than they do them- selves now ; they carved rude figures in relief on ...
... America , Father Charlevoix remarks of the Iroquois of the last century , that in old times they used to build their cabins better than other nations , and better than they do them- selves now ; they carved rude figures in relief on ...
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Abipones Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic appears Archip Aryan barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body Brahmans called Castrén ceremony Christian civilization connexion culture Dayaks dead death deity demons divine doctrine dwell earth evidence evil express fancy father fetish Fiji fire funeral ghosts gods Greek Grimm Hades hand heaven higher Hindu human idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land language legend living lower races lustration man's mankind Max Müller meaning Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature numerals Oestl offerings Ojibwa origin Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia prayer priest primitive religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice Sanskrit savage Schoolcraft seems souls sound spirits stone story survival Tatar theory things thought tion Tonga traced tree tribes Turanian tribes vigesimal Waitz words worship Yoruba Zealand Zulu
Popular passages
Page 1 - CULTURE or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 178 - For the dews will soone be falling; Leave your meadow grasses mellow, Mellow, mellow; Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot; Quit the stalks of parsley hollow, Hollow, hollow; Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, From the clovers lift your head ; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot, Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, Jetty, to the milking shed.
Page 55 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 284 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 384 - ... an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 6 Т And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock ; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Page 58 - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
Page 187 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 397 - Cant'' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
Page 141 - ... it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...