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... observation . This is to ex- tend , not , as he argued , to a few products of culture , but to everything which makes up national or ethnic life , be it an historic event , an object of art , a law , custom , rite , myth , or mode of ...
... observation . This is to ex- tend , not , as he argued , to a few products of culture , but to everything which makes up national or ethnic life , be it an historic event , an object of art , a law , custom , rite , myth , or mode of ...
Page 42
... observation of its own modes of being ; and that it is this abstraction , if you please , which is the prime factor in the fate of the group over which it rules . But I must return again to the definition of the Group . It must not be ...
... observation of its own modes of being ; and that it is this abstraction , if you please , which is the prime factor in the fate of the group over which it rules . But I must return again to the definition of the Group . It must not be ...
Page 66
... observe is between relative regressive and actual regressive changes . The former are not only consistent with general progress , but in some sense a condition of it . In fol- lowing the steep ascent of advancement , we must cast aside ...
... observe is between relative regressive and actual regressive changes . The former are not only consistent with general progress , but in some sense a condition of it . In fol- lowing the steep ascent of advancement , we must cast aside ...
Page 107
... observe cases of mental disease where all the faculties of the mind seem intact and equal to the average , except that there is a persistent irrational delusion on some single point or a few points ; or else the mind is controlled by ...
... observe cases of mental disease where all the faculties of the mind seem intact and equal to the average , except that there is a persistent irrational delusion on some single point or a few points ; or else the mind is controlled by ...
Page 131
... observations in France , Switzerland , and Germany , and are undoubtedly true for the places and periods in which they were conducted ; but it has not been shown that they are gener- ally applicable in other areas . Some observers ...
... observations in France , Switzerland , and Germany , and are undoubtedly true for the places and periods in which they were conducted ; but it has not been shown that they are gener- ally applicable in other areas . Some observers ...
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Page 204 - Earth Sculpture ; or, The Origin of Land-Forms. By JAMES GEIKIE, LL.D., DCL, FRS, etc., Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh ; author of " The Great Ice Age,
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