Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... theory to account for the appearance among them of human crea- tures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with their pallid deathly hue combined with powers that seem those of superhuman spiritual beings , have determined ...
... theory to account for the appearance among them of human crea- tures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with their pallid deathly hue combined with powers that seem those of superhuman spiritual beings , have determined ...
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... theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In ...
... theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In ...
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... theory of penance and purification of souls by migration into animals and plants , probably elaborating it meanwhile into fresh and fanciful details . In later times , the doctrine of metempsychosis has been again and again noticed in a ...
... theory of penance and purification of souls by migration into animals and plants , probably elaborating it meanwhile into fresh and fanciful details . In later times , the doctrine of metempsychosis has been again and again noticed in a ...
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... theory of metempsy- chosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy ...
... theory of metempsy- chosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy ...
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... theory that ancestral souls return , thus imparting their own likeness of mind and body to their descendants and kindred , has been already mentioned and commended as in itself a very reason- able and philosophical hypothesis ...
... theory that ancestral souls return , thus imparting their own likeness of mind and body to their descendants and kindred , has been already mentioned and commended as in itself a very reason- able and philosophical hypothesis ...
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