Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, المجلد 1Holt, 1889 |
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning Mensch metaphor mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia primitive Quiché language Quichua religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sense sneeze soul sound South America spirit STANFORD stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traces verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 1 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
الصفحة 389 - 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.
الصفحة 425 - 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.
الصفحة 266 - Vainly does each, as he glides, Fable and dream Of the lands which the river of Time Had left ere he woke on its breast, Or shall reach when his eyes have been closed. Only the tract where he sails He wots of; only the thoughts, Raised by the objects he passes, are his.
الصفحة 20 - Normandy, the rule applies to uterine brothers only, that is, to brothers by the same mother but not by the same father; and, limited in this way, it is a strict deduction from the system of Agnation, under which uterine brothers are no relations at all to one another. When it was transplanted to England, the English judges, who had no clue to its principle," interpreted it as a general prohibition against the succession of the half-blood, and extended it to consanguineous brothers, that is to sons...
الصفحة 20 - ... English judges, who had no clue to its principle," interpreted it as a general prohibition against the succession of the half-blood, and extended it to consanguineous brothers, that is to sons of the same father by different wives. In all the literature which enshrines the pretended philosophy of law, there is nothing more curious than the pages of elaborate sophistry in which Blackstone attempts to explain and justify the exclusion of the half-blood.
الصفحة 35 - 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.
الصفحة 389 - French, a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of odd words of their own devising, without all order or reason ; and yet, such is it as none but themselves are able to understand.
الصفحة 418 - Animism is, in fact, the groundwork of the Philosophy of Religion, from that of savages up to that of civilized men.
الصفحة 420 - It seems as though thinking men, as yet at a low level of culture, were deeply impressed by two groups of biological problems. In the first place, what is it that makes the difference between a living body and a dead one; what causes waking, sleep. trance, disease, death? In the second place, what are those human shapes which appear in dreams and visions?