Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyD. Appleton, 1906 - 228 pagini |
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Pagina 126
... omens are a sign of coming events ; that some trees are lucky , that some animals are lucky , that some places are lucky , that some indifferent actions - indifferent apparently and indifferent really - are lucky , and so of others in ...
... omens are a sign of coming events ; that some trees are lucky , that some animals are lucky , that some places are lucky , that some indifferent actions - indifferent apparently and indifferent really - are lucky , and so of others in ...
Pagina 131
... results of games to disprove this thoroughly ; and by the time people can make tables they are already above such beliefs , and do not need to have them dis- proved . Nor in many cases where omens or amulets NATION - MAKING . 131.
... results of games to disprove this thoroughly ; and by the time people can make tables they are already above such beliefs , and do not need to have them dis- proved . Nor in many cases where omens or amulets NATION - MAKING . 131.
Pagina 132
... omens or amulets are used would such tables be easy to make , for the data could not be found ; and a rash attempt to subdue the superstition by a striking instance may easily end in confirming it . Francis Newman , in the remarkable ...
... omens or amulets are used would such tables be easy to make , for the data could not be found ; and a rash attempt to subdue the superstition by a striking instance may easily end in confirming it . Francis Newman , in the remarkable ...
Pagina 133
... omens is a military misfortune , and will bring a nation to destruction if set to fight with a nation at all equal otherwise , who had a religion without omens . Clearly then , if all early men unanimously , or even much the greater ...
... omens is a military misfortune , and will bring a nation to destruction if set to fight with a nation at all equal otherwise , who had a religion without omens . Clearly then , if all early men unanimously , or even much the greater ...
Pagina 134
... omens and in the worship of lucky beasts and things , which are a sort of embodied and permanent omens . It may indeed be objected - an analogous objection was taken as to the ascertained moral deficiencies of pre - historic mankind ...
... omens and in the worship of lucky beasts and things , which are a sort of embodied and permanent omens . It may indeed be objected - an analogous objection was taken as to the ascertained moral deficiencies of pre - historic mankind ...
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