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... culture , that all Nature is thronged with spiritual beings ; and what a savage might expect to see , if his spiritual eyes were opened . Demons of storm and pestilence , issuing from a volcano , and identifying themselves with the ...
... culture , that all Nature is thronged with spiritual beings ; and what a savage might expect to see , if his spiritual eyes were opened . Demons of storm and pestilence , issuing from a volcano , and identifying themselves with the ...
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... culture , a Theology can hardly be said to exist at all ; and the religious sentiment is satisfied by a super- stitious dread of the unseen beings who are believed to exercise a baneful influence over Nature , and an unreasoning faith ...
... culture , a Theology can hardly be said to exist at all ; and the religious sentiment is satisfied by a super- stitious dread of the unseen beings who are believed to exercise a baneful influence over Nature , and an unreasoning faith ...
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... culture . " Amongst cultured races the ancient Egyptians recognized after death a disem- bodied personality for each individual . The " Book of the Dead " proceeds throughout on this assumption ; the soul has a form , and can eat and ...
... culture . " Amongst cultured races the ancient Egyptians recognized after death a disem- bodied personality for each individual . The " Book of the Dead " proceeds throughout on this assumption ; the soul has a form , and can eat and ...
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... Culture , " ii . 75 , second ed . Animism in his " Primitive Culture : " it is 42 THE PEDIGREE OF THE DEVIL .
... Culture , " ii . 75 , second ed . Animism in his " Primitive Culture : " it is 42 THE PEDIGREE OF THE DEVIL .
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Frederic Thomas Hall. Animism in his " Primitive Culture : " it is sufficient for the present purpose to point out that , from the earliest dawn of intelligence , the belief in the existence of ancestral spirits has been almost universal ...
Frederic Thomas Hall. Animism in his " Primitive Culture : " it is sufficient for the present purpose to point out that , from the earliest dawn of intelligence , the belief in the existence of ancestral spirits has been almost universal ...
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