Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... numerals in general . Can we go farther , and state broadly the mental process by which savage men , having no numerals as yet in their language , came to invent them ? What was the origin of numerals not named with reference to hands ...
... numerals in general . Can we go farther , and state broadly the mental process by which savage men , having no numerals as yet in their language , came to invent them ? What was the origin of numerals not named with reference to hands ...
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... numeral words . If we take into considera- tion the origin of actual numerals , the process of their formation appears evidently to have been the same as that here described . The latter is nothing else than a wider extension of the ...
... numeral words . If we take into considera- tion the origin of actual numerals , the process of their formation appears evidently to have been the same as that here described . The latter is nothing else than a wider extension of the ...
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... numerals . The Oraon tribes , while belonging to a race of the Dravidian stock , and having had a series of native numerals accordingly , appear to have given up their use beyond 4 , or sometimes even 2 , and adopted Hindi numerals in ...
... numerals . The Oraon tribes , while belonging to a race of the Dravidian stock , and having had a series of native numerals accordingly , appear to have given up their use beyond 4 , or sometimes even 2 , and adopted Hindi numerals in ...
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