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... thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to ...
... thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to ...
Page 20
... 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 , that the savage who declares ...
... 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 , that the savage who declares ...
Page 22
... thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal memory that kept it alive . The doctrine of the surviving soul may indeed be treated as common to all known races , though its acceptance is not unanimous ...
... thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal memory that kept it alive . The doctrine of the surviving soul may indeed be treated as common to all known races , though its acceptance is not unanimous ...
Page 24
... thought still as heretofore familiar to speculative theology , is not unknown in the lower culture . The soul , as recognized in the philosophy of the lower races , may be defined as an ethereal surviving being , con- ceptions of which ...
... thought still as heretofore familiar to speculative theology , is not unknown in the lower culture . The soul , as recognized in the philosophy of the lower races , may be defined as an ethereal surviving being , con- ceptions of which ...
Page 26
... thought by that time to have departed ; the Hottentots abandoned the dead man's house , and were said to avoid entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it ...
... thought by that time to have departed ; the Hottentots abandoned the dead man's house , and were said to avoid entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it ...
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