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... animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , ' He will come again.'1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though ...
... animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , ' He will come again.'1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though ...
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... animal which has eaten of the bark , flower , or fruit ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees.3 ...
... animal which has eaten of the bark , flower , or fruit ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees.3 ...
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... animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 ...
... animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 ...
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... animals and plants.1 In later times , the doctrine of metempsychosis has been again and again noticed in a district ... animal . ' Such ideas indeed , seem not yet extinct in the modern Druse nation . Among the Nassairi , also ...
... animals and plants.1 In later times , the doctrine of metempsychosis has been again and again noticed in a district ... animal . ' Such ideas indeed , seem not yet extinct in the modern Druse nation . Among the Nassairi , also ...
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... animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter ...
... animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter ...
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