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" 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. "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 1
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1924
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

1872 - 592 pages
...true philosophic power and a spirit imbued with reverence. 'Culture or civilisation,' says Mr. Tylor, 'taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of * ' Primitive Culture : Eosearches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy,...
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The permanence of Christianity, lectures preached before the University of ...

John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...passage. Comp. also Grant's Samp. Lect., p. 308. Mr. Tylor (TTist. Prim. Cult., I. p. 1) thus defines: "Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." 1 See Mr. Tylor, us, I. 24. Comp. Comte, Phil. Pc* n V. 252,257. 3...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 14, Part 1877

University of the State of New York - Education - 1878 - 146 pages
...the following from that erudite English student of civilization, Tylor, in Primitive Culture, says : "Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." (Vol. I., p. 1.) This being so, why not face it directly and without...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 472 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie, in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), " art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 440 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie , in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), "art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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The Permanence of Christianity: Considered in Eight Lectures Preached Before ...

John Richard Turner Eaton - Apologetics - 1879 - 420 pages
...passage. Comp. also Grant's Damp. Lect., p. 308. Mr. Tylor (His:. Prim. Cult., I. p. 1) thus defines : " Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which inclndes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 476 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie, in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole wliich includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), " art, morals, law, custom, and any other...
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Practical Suggestions to the American Tourist Visiting Europe for the ...

James Harmon Hoose - Europe - 1881 - 148 pages
...culture to extend one's observations and studies over wider ranges of materials, for as Tylor says : " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Speaking of galleries reminds me to make a suggestion about observing...
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Science, Volume 47

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 676 pages
...The book starts with Tylor's well-known and practically perfect definition of culture : " Culture ... is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...habits acquired by man as a member of society." The point is well made and forcibly driven home that since the science of psychology, even in its most...
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Science, Volume 45

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1917 - 692 pages
...languages, living, dead and half dead, with taste and manners, and are coming to view it as " that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." In this view we are approaching the idea of " Kultur " as set forth...
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