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... philosophy , 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 .
... philosophy , 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 .
Page 12
... this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine
his fate in future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births
, but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life .
... this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine
his fate in future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births
, but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life .
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288 , etc . 2 Since the first publication of the above remark , M . Louis Figuier has
supplied a perfect modern instance by his book , entitled ' Le Lendemain de la
Mort , ' translated into English as “ The Day after Death : Our Future Life
according ...
288 , etc . 2 Since the first publication of the above remark , M . Louis Figuier has
supplied a perfect modern instance by his book , entitled ' Le Lendemain de la
Mort , ' translated into English as “ The Day after Death : Our Future Life
according ...
Page 18
... 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 trace historically by
comparing the views of lower and Swedenborg , " The True Christian Religion , '
13 .
... 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 trace historically by
comparing the views of lower and Swedenborg , " The True Christian Religion , '
13 .
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... and more clearly conceived in savage thought . 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
reason ...
... and more clearly conceived in savage thought . 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
reason ...
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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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