Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 37
... lower and higher stages of one formation . As such , then , two principal theories claim to account for their relation . As to the first hypothesis , which takes savage life as in some sort representing an early human state whence ...
... lower and higher stages of one formation . As such , then , two principal theories claim to account for their relation . As to the first hypothesis , which takes savage life as in some sort representing an early human state whence ...
Page 53
... lower , or the lower to have fallen from the higher , is scarcely forth- coming . Both operations may in degree have happened . It is apparent , from such general inspection of this ethno- logical problem , that it would repay a far ...
... lower , or the lower to have fallen from the higher , is scarcely forth- coming . Both operations may in degree have happened . It is apparent , from such general inspection of this ethno- logical problem , that it would repay a far ...
Page 67
... lower civilization , and scarcely able to survive beyond . Nearly the same may be said of the blow- tube , which as a serious weapon scarcely ranges above rude tribes of the East Indies and South America , though kept up in sport at ...
... lower civilization , and scarcely able to survive beyond . Nearly the same may be said of the blow- tube , which as a serious weapon scarcely ranges above rude tribes of the East Indies and South America , though kept up in sport at ...
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