Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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... pass after death ; but I am unable to find any reliable testimony in support of this poetic notion . To me it seems that the Red Indian is nothing more than one of a ferocious tribe of men , who , having to subsist by the chase alone ...
... pass after death ; but I am unable to find any reliable testimony in support of this poetic notion . To me it seems that the Red Indian is nothing more than one of a ferocious tribe of men , who , having to subsist by the chase alone ...
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... pass on to remark , that even in nations , whose intellect is highly cultivated , the propensity to advance in knowledge is singularly small . Throughout the old world an inventor is usually regarded as a visionary , or a lunatic , and ...
... pass on to remark , that even in nations , whose intellect is highly cultivated , the propensity to advance in knowledge is singularly small . Throughout the old world an inventor is usually regarded as a visionary , or a lunatic , and ...
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... passes current for religion in more civilized countries . Yet though they have no definite idea of a Creator , and the way in which He works throughout the universe , they have a dread of some unseen power , and , like a number of ...
... passes current for religion in more civilized countries . Yet though they have no definite idea of a Creator , and the way in which He works throughout the universe , they have a dread of some unseen power , and , like a number of ...
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... Passing from the African , let us now say a word or two about the Australian . It is , I think , Mitchell , who states , in an account of his travels in that country , that the white men were used in a manner so considerate , in some ...
... Passing from the African , let us now say a word or two about the Australian . It is , I think , Mitchell , who states , in an account of his travels in that country , that the white men were used in a manner so considerate , in some ...
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... passes . If , then , the surmise to which we gave utterance awhile ago is founded in truth , we may fairly endeavour to ascertain what is the race , or the people , which have been born with a higher religious development , a greater ...
... passes . If , then , the surmise to which we gave utterance awhile ago is founded in truth , we may fairly endeavour to ascertain what is the race , or the people , which have been born with a higher religious development , a greater ...
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