Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Customs, 1. kötetH. Holt, 1874 |
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... less spontaneity , let us take this admitted existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing ...
... less spontaneity , let us take this admitted existence of natural cause and effect as our standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing ...
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... less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of unsifted talk , a man preju- diced or even wilfully deceitful ? " This question is , indeed , one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his ...
... less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of unsifted talk , a man preju- diced or even wilfully deceitful ? " This question is , indeed , one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his ...
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... less likely that several people in several places should have made it wrongly . This being so , it seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the ...
... less likely that several people in several places should have made it wrongly . This being so , it seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given , and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the ...
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... that the new material is suited to a handier and less wasteful pattern . And thus , in the other branches of our history , there will come again and again into view series of facts which may be THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE . 15.
... that the new material is suited to a handier and less wasteful pattern . And thus , in the other branches of our history , there will come again and again into view series of facts which may be THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE . 15.
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... less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the fashion of the clothes men wear . The VOL . I. C ridiculous little tails of the German ...
... less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the fashion of the clothes men wear . The VOL . I. C ridiculous little tails of the German ...
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Abipones Africa Algic ancient animals Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body Book of Werewolves called century Chinook Jargon civilization connexion counting creatures culture dead death described doctrine early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral Greek Grimm hand heaven Hindi numerals Hine-nui-te-po human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands J. G. Müller Journ Khonds language legend lower races Malay man's mankind Maori Maui Max Müller meaning Mensch metaphor mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numbers numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia primitive Quichua quinary reckoning relation religion remarkable rite rude saltee Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound South America spirit story survival tails tell theory things thought tion Tonga traces tradition vigesimal words Yoruba Zealand Zulu
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16. oldal - These are processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home, and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of culture out of which a newer has been evolved.
33. oldal - The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.
397. oldal - Cant'' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
35. oldal - Since the first discovery of the arts, war, commerce, and religious zeal have diffused among the savages of the Old and New World these inestimable gifts: they have been successively propagated; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased and still increases the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
433. oldal - Among the Seminoles of Florida, when a woman died in childbirth, the infant was held over her face to receive her parting spirit, and thus acquire strength and knowledge for its future use...
477. oldal - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
401. oldal - Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity.
34. oldal - ... and of metals; the propagation and service of domestic animals; the methods of hunting and fishing; the rudiments of navigation ; the imperfect cultivation of corn or other nutritive grain; and the simple practice of the mechanic trades.
429. oldal - ... corporeal owner, past or present; capable of leaving the body far behind, to flash swiftly from place to place; mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting physical power, and especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which it bears the likeness; continuing to exist and appear to men after the death of that body; able to enter into, possess, and act in the bodies of other men, of animals, and even of things.
2. oldal - To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature, that our thoughts, wills, and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion of waves, the combination of acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals.