Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and CivilizationAppleton, 1891 - 448 pagini |
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... Ancestors , 351 - Demons , 352— Nature Spirits , 357 - Gods , 358 - Worship , 364 - Moral Influence , 368 . CHAPTER XV . HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY . 373 Tradition , 373 - Poetry , 375 - Fact in Fiction , 377 - Earliest Poems and Writings ...
... Ancestors , 351 - Demons , 352— Nature Spirits , 357 - Gods , 358 - Worship , 364 - Moral Influence , 368 . CHAPTER XV . HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY . 373 Tradition , 373 - Poetry , 375 - Fact in Fiction , 377 - Earliest Poems and Writings ...
Pagina 6
... ancestors were inherited by their descendants and became stronger by in - breeding ; how far , when the weak and dull - witted tribes failed in the struggle for land and life , the stronger , braver , and abler tribes survived to leave ...
... ancestors were inherited by their descendants and became stronger by in - breeding ; how far , when the weak and dull - witted tribes failed in the struggle for land and life , the stronger , braver , and abler tribes survived to leave ...
Pagina 7
... ancestors of the African , the Australian , the Mongol , and the Scandinavian , were as yet one undivided stock , the theory of their common descent must be so framed as to allow causes strong enough and time long enough to bring about ...
... ancestors of the African , the Australian , the Mongol , and the Scandinavian , were as yet one undivided stock , the theory of their common descent must be so framed as to allow causes strong enough and time long enough to bring about ...
Pagina 16
... ancestors . On the whole , these various ways of examining arts and sciences all prove that they . never spring forth perfect , like Athene out of the split head of Zeus . They come on by successive steps , and where other information ...
... ancestors . On the whole , these various ways of examining arts and sciences all prove that they . never spring forth perfect , like Athene out of the split head of Zeus . They come on by successive steps , and where other information ...
Pagina 18
... ancestors , wanting a word for five , held up one hand and said " hand . " Indeed , the reason of our own decimal notation , why we reckon by tens instead of the more convenient twelves , appears to be that our forefathers got from ...
... ancestors , wanting a word for five , held up one hand and said " hand . " Indeed , the reason of our own decimal notation , why we reckon by tens instead of the more convenient twelves , appears to be that our forefathers got from ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization Edward Burnett Tylor Vizualizare completă - 1893 |
Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization Edward Burnett Tylor Vizualizare fragmente - 1899 |
Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization Edward Burnett Tylor Vizualizare fragmente - 1899 |
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African American ancestors ancient Egypt ancient Egyptian animals apes appears Aryan Assyrian Australian barbarians barbaric beasts become belong Beni Hassan body Botocudo Brahmans bronze called carried celt chimpanzee Chinese civilization colour culture curious deity early earth Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics England English Europe European fire flint forest give Greek hair hand hatchets Herodotus Hindu human idea imitated implements India Indians invention iron islands kind known land language Latin learnt living look Malay man's mankind means metal mind modern nations native natural negro noticed origin Phoenician Phoenician alphabet plainly primitive quadrupeds reckoned religion Roman round rude tribes Sanskrit savage seems seen SHELDON AMOS signs skin skull souls sound South America South Sea Islanders spear spear-head stages stick stone age Tatar thought traces verb warrior weapons whole wild words writing
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Pagina 402 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Pagina 297 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Pagina 266 - How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful...
Pagina 12 - On the whole it appears that wherever there are found elaborate arts, abstruse knowledge, complex institutions, these are results of gradual development from an earlier, simpler, and ruder state of life. No stage of civilization comes into existence spontaneously, but grows or is developed out of the stage before it. This is the great principle which every scholar must lay firm hold of, if he intends to understand either the world he lives in or the history of the past.