Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life .
... and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life .
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... consistently and systematically hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
... consistently and systematically hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
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... of the above remark , M. Louis Fignier has supplied a perfect modern instance by his book , entitled ' Le Lendem vin de la Mort , ' translated into English as " The Day after Death : Our Future Life according to Science .
... of the above remark , M. Louis Fignier has supplied a perfect modern instance by his book , entitled ' Le Lendem vin de la Mort , ' translated into English as " The Day after Death : Our Future Life according to Science .
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Here a few words may be said on a subject which cannot be left out of sight , connecting as it does the two great branches of the doctrine of future existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to ...
Here a few words may be said on a subject which cannot be left out of sight , connecting as it does the two great branches of the doctrine of future existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to ...
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There may well have been , and there may still be , low races destitute of any belief in a Future State . Nevertheless , . , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this ...
There may well have been , and there may still be , low races destitute of any belief in a Future State . Nevertheless , . , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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