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... supposed , Man having Starting - point everywhere begun by being a fetich - wor- of the human shipper and a cannibal . Instead of indulging race . The our horror and disgust of such a state of things by denying it , we should admit a ...
... supposed , Man having Starting - point everywhere begun by being a fetich - wor- of the human shipper and a cannibal . Instead of indulging race . The our horror and disgust of such a state of things by denying it , we should admit a ...
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... supposed they could have anything to do with the government of the thunder . A long series of gradual modifications in human conceptions was there- fore necessary to invert the primitive order , and place the stars at the head of ...
... supposed they could have anything to do with the government of the thunder . A long series of gradual modifications in human conceptions was there- fore necessary to invert the primitive order , and place the stars at the head of ...
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... supposed matter to be , in all forms , actually alive , while polytheism declared it to be nearly inert , and pas- sively subject to the arbitrary will of a divine agent , it seems hardly imaginable how such a transition of views could ...
... supposed matter to be , in all forms , actually alive , while polytheism declared it to be nearly inert , and pas- sively subject to the arbitrary will of a divine agent , it seems hardly imaginable how such a transition of views could ...
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... supposed . Then , as in every other age , the rise and action of the various fine arts were occasioned by a pre - existing and universally - admitted philosophy , which was only more especially favourable to them in the earliest times ...
... supposed . Then , as in every other age , the rise and action of the various fine arts were occasioned by a pre - existing and universally - admitted philosophy , which was only more especially favourable to them in the earliest times ...
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... supposed ; and that it would be a mistake to imagine that the æsthetic faculties of Man have declined , merely because their exer- cise is not so prominent , nor so favoured by circumstances , as in the age of polytheism . Without ...
... supposed ; and that it would be a mistake to imagine that the æsthetic faculties of Man have declined , merely because their exer- cise is not so prominent , nor so favoured by circumstances , as in the age of polytheism . Without ...
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