Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... animals as studied by the naturalist . To the ethnographer the bow and arrow is a species , the habit of flattening children's skulls is a species , the practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu ...
... animals as studied by the naturalist . To the ethnographer the bow and arrow is a species , the habit of flattening children's skulls is a species , the practice of reckoning numbers by tens is a species . The geographical distribu ...
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... animals to mere machines , on the other what Mr. Alger defines as the faith that animals have immaterial and deathless souls . ' Among modern speculations may be instanced that of Wesley , who thought that in the next life animals will ...
... animals to mere machines , on the other what Mr. Alger defines as the faith that animals have immaterial and deathless souls . ' Among modern speculations may be instanced that of Wesley , who thought that in the next life animals will ...
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... animals . The Society Islanders seem to have attributed ' varua , ' i.e. surviving soul or spirit , not to men only but to animals and plants.1 The Dayaks of Borneo not only consider men and animals to have a spirit or living principle ...
... animals . The Society Islanders seem to have attributed ' varua , ' i.e. surviving soul or spirit , not to men only but to animals and plants.1 The Dayaks of Borneo not only consider men and animals to have a spirit or living principle ...
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