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Page 55
... age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead . Echoes in medieval legend of such exploring expeditions to the world below still linger faintly in the popular belief of Europe . It has been thus ...
... age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead . Echoes in medieval legend of such exploring expeditions to the world below still linger faintly in the popular belief of Europe . It has been thus ...
Page 59
... age . The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears testi- mony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them ...
... age . The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears testi- mony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them ...
Page 63
... Age , between the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron . When death closed on this heroic race , Zeus granted them at the ends of Earth a life and home , apart from man and far from the immortals . There Kronos reigns over them , and they ...
... Age , between the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron . When death closed on this heroic race , Zeus granted them at the ends of Earth a life and home , apart from man and far from the immortals . There Kronos reigns over them , and they ...
Page 88
... age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Death- goddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death came to fetch him from a peaceful couch , yet at least he could have the scratch of ...
... age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Death- goddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death came to fetch him from a peaceful couch , yet at least he could have the scratch of ...
Page 94
... ages of Christian and Moslem intercourse , to which at any rate few will scruple to refer the last case ? In the lower ranges of civilization , some of the most re- markable doctrines of this class are recorded in North America . Thus ...
... ages of Christian and Moslem intercourse , to which at any rate few will scruple to refer the last case ? In the lower ranges of civilization , some of the most re- markable doctrines of this class are recorded in North America . Thus ...
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