Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, المجلد 1Holt, 1889 |
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Abipones Africa ages Algic America ancient animals Archæology Aryan Asien Aztec barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong Botocudo called century Chinook Jargon civilization connexion counting creatures culture describes divination early earth eclipse English European evidence express fact fancy father fingers Greek Grimm hand heaven Hindi numerals Hine-nui-te-po human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Khonds language legend lower races Malay Manabozho mankind Maori Maui Max Müller meaning medieval metaphor mind modern monster Moon mother myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numbers numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia Quichua quinary reckoning relation religion remarkable rude saltee Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sense shape sneeze sound spirits stages stone story survival tails tell theory things thought tion Tongan traces tradition verb vigesimal vowels wild words Yoruba Zealand Zulu
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة xiii - 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 29 - 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.
الصفحة 429 - 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 473 - 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.
الصفحة 422 - Animism is, in fact, the groundwork of the Philosophy of Religion, from that of savages up to that of civilized men.
الصفحة 12 - 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.
الصفحة 182 - There prevailed in those days an indecent custom: when the preacher touched any favourite topic in a manner that delighted his audience, their approbation was expressed by a loud hum, continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so loudly and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and rubbed his face with his handkerchief. When...
الصفحة 3 - For the present purpose it appears both possible and desirable to eliminate considerations of hereditary varieties or races of man, and to treat mankind as homogeneous in nature, though placed in different grades of civilization. The details of the enquiry will, I think, prove that stages of culture may be compared without taking into account how far tribes who use the same implement, follow the same custom, or believe the same myth, may differ in their bodily configuration and the colour of their...
الصفحة 425 - It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates ; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its 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...
الصفحة 397 - 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.