Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 49
... less connexion of ancestral race . As a guide in tracing the history of civilization , language gives still better evidence , for common language to a great extent involves common culture . The race dominant enough to maintain or impose ...
... less connexion of ancestral race . As a guide in tracing the history of civilization , language gives still better evidence , for common language to a great extent involves common culture . The race dominant enough to maintain or impose ...
Page 236
... less like results ; and this has been shown over and over again in these pages to be what really happens . Now Wilhelm von Humboldt's view that language is an ' organism ' has been considered a great step in philological speculation ...
... less like results ; and this has been shown over and over again in these pages to be what really happens . Now Wilhelm von Humboldt's view that language is an ' organism ' has been considered a great step in philological speculation ...
Page 241
... less and less power of forming a distinct notion of large numbers , the reckoner is sooner driven to his fingers , and there increases among the most intelligent that numerical indefiniteness that we notice among children - if there ...
... less and less power of forming a distinct notion of large numbers , the reckoner is sooner driven to his fingers , and there increases among the most intelligent that numerical indefiniteness that we notice among children - if there ...
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