Myths and DreamsChatto and Windus, 1885 - 251 páginas |
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... origin and growth of beliefs in the supernatural . The examples are selected chiefly from barbaric races , as furnishing the nearest correspondences to the working of the mind in what may be called its " eocene " stage , but examples ...
... origin and growth of beliefs in the supernatural . The examples are selected chiefly from barbaric races , as furnishing the nearest correspondences to the working of the mind in what may be called its " eocene " stage , but examples ...
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... Origin of Species1 showed wherein it fell short ; how the importance of the above - named causes was ex- aggerated and the existence of equally potent causes overlooked . Buckle probably had not read Herbert Spencer's Social Statics ...
... Origin of Species1 showed wherein it fell short ; how the importance of the above - named causes was ex- aggerated and the existence of equally potent causes overlooked . Buckle probably had not read Herbert Spencer's Social Statics ...
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... fast his " form of sound words " about man's origin . One is as good as another where all are irrational and beyond proof . But if he is , then the inquiry concerning him may not stop at the anatomy of his body and the 4 MYTHS AND DREAMS .
... fast his " form of sound words " about man's origin . One is as good as another where all are irrational and beyond proof . But if he is , then the inquiry concerning him may not stop at the anatomy of his body and the 4 MYTHS AND DREAMS .
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... origin , concerning the conditions out of which he has emerged , and concerning the mythologies of lower races and their survival in unsuspected forms in the higher races , which was not only beyond reach , but also beyond conception ...
... origin , concerning the conditions out of which he has emerged , and concerning the mythologies of lower races and their survival in unsuspected forms in the higher races , which was not only beyond reach , but also beyond conception ...
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... origin in its more developed forms , as the ancestral history of the higher organisms is embodied in their embryos . Man wondered before he reasoned . Awe and fear are quick to express themselves in rudimentary worship ; hence the myth ...
... origin in its more developed forms , as the ancestral history of the higher organisms is embodied in their embryos . Man wondered before he reasoned . Awe and fear are quick to express themselves in rudimentary worship ; hence the myth ...
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A. B. GROSART Abipones Algonquin ancestors ancient animals Aryan Aryan Nations beast bird body breath CHARLES civilised cloth extra cloth limp Coloured conception Cronus Crown 8vo custom dark dead death deity demons Demy 8vo disease doctrine dreams earth Edited Eskimo Essays existence eyes familiar spirit Fcap folk-lore folk-tales Frontispiece ghost gilt gods Greek Grimm's law heart heaven Hebrew HENRY VAN LAUN human ideas Illus illustrated boards Indian killed Koshchei language legend lest living Love man's Max Müller meaning mediæval mind moon myth mythology nature night notions Novels numerous Illustrations origin passed phenomena PICCADILLY NOVELS play Poems Portrait Post 8vo primitive prince Punchkin races relics religion round Sanskrit savage shadow Sheol sleep solar sorcerer soul spirit stone story survival tells theory things thought Three Vols tion totem tree tribes Vritra whilst wind words
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