Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volumes 1-2Brentano's, 1924 - Animism |
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... fact depends on what has gone before it , and acts upon what is to come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal Kosmos . They affirm , with Aristotle , that nature is not full of ...
... fact depends on what has gone before it , and acts upon what is to come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal Kosmos . They affirm , with Aristotle , that nature is not full of ...
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... facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student after a while to expect and find that the phenomena of culture , as resulting from widely ...
... facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student after a while to expect and find that the phenomena of culture , as resulting from widely ...
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... fact , we can scarce distinguish in the mass , while we see each regiment as an organized body , spreading or concentrating , moving in advance or in retreat . In some branches of the study of social laws it is now possible to call in ...
... fact , we can scarce distinguish in the mass , while we see each regiment as an organized body , spreading or concentrating , moving in advance or in retreat . In some branches of the study of social laws it is now possible to call in ...
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... fact is that a stone arrow - head , a carved club , an idol , a grave - mound where slaves and property have been buried for the use of the dead an account of a sorcerer's rites in making rain , a tole of numerals , the conjugation of a ...
... fact is that a stone arrow - head , a carved club , an idol , a grave - mound where slaves and property have been buried for the use of the dead an account of a sorcerer's rites in making rain , a tole of numerals , the conjugation of a ...
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... facts which may be consis- tently arranged as having followed one another in a particular order of development , but which will hardly bear being turned round and made to follow in reversed order . Such for instance are the facts I have ...
... facts which may be consis- tently arranged as having followed one another in a particular order of development , but which will hardly bear being turned round and made to follow in reversed order . Such for instance are the facts I have ...
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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
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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...