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One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark -
skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance
among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and
struck with ...
One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark -
skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance
among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and
struck with ...
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A similar 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 .
A similar 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 .
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It seems clear that the Manichĉan sect , when they fused together Zarathustrism ,
Buddhism , and Christianity , into a transcendental ascetic faith , adopted the
Hindu theory of penance and purification of souls by migration into animals and ...
It seems clear that the Manichĉan sect , when they fused together Zarathustrism ,
Buddhism , and Christianity , into a transcendental ascetic faith , adopted the
Hindu theory of penance and purification of souls by migration into animals and ...
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Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis 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 ...
Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis 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 ...
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The 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 reasonable and philosophical hypothesis ...
The 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 reasonable and philosophical hypothesis ...
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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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