Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution: With Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy, Volume 2 |
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... tribal communities into larger and larger groups , which become ever more heterogene- ous and more interdependent ; and secondly , that what we call civilization consists in the ever increasing definiteness and complexity of the ...
... tribal communities into larger and larger groups , which become ever more heterogene- ous and more interdependent ; and secondly , that what we call civilization consists in the ever increasing definiteness and complexity of the ...
Page 195
... tribes of Africa and Polynesia . " Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay . " So irregular , indeed , has been the march of civilization , that most stages of progress may be made the subject of ocular investigation at the ...
... tribes of Africa and Polynesia . " Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay . " So irregular , indeed , has been the march of civilization , that most stages of progress may be made the subject of ocular investigation at the ...
Page 197
... tribe consists of the physical circumstances of Labrador , of adjoining tribes , of a few traders or travellers , and of the sum - total of the traditions received from ancestral Eskimos . These make up the sum of the conditions ...
... tribe consists of the physical circumstances of Labrador , of adjoining tribes , of a few traders or travellers , and of the sum - total of the traditions received from ancestral Eskimos . These make up the sum of the conditions ...
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... tribe is a congeries of neighbouring hostile tribes ; and the necessity of escaping captivity or death involves continual readiness for warfare , and the continual manifestation of the entire class of warlike unsocial passions . While ...
... tribe is a congeries of neighbouring hostile tribes ; and the necessity of escaping captivity or death involves continual readiness for warfare , and the continual manifestation of the entire class of warlike unsocial passions . While ...
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... tribal community grows to a vast size , remaining structurally a tribe with a patriarchal head , -- as was the case in ancient Egypt , Assyria , Persia and India , and as is still the case in China . But they are still better fulfilled ...
... tribal community grows to a vast size , remaining structurally a tribe with a patriarchal head , -- as was the case in ancient Egypt , Assyria , Persia and India , and as is still the case in China . But they are still better fulfilled ...
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Page 401 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Page 210 - It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact, and in the view of the men who composed it, it was an aggregation of families. The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by saying that the unit of an ancient society was the Family, of a modern society the Individual.
Page 282 - ... to be correct, and he would refer back to the first couple of sticks ; and then his mind got hazy and confused, and wandered from one sheep to the other, and he broke off the transaction until two sticks were put into his hand, and one sheep driven away, and then the other two sticks given him, and the second sheep driven away...
Page 274 - But the peculiarity is that in no case do these rules " purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors, which rests on grounds of reason not on grounds of innocence and sanctity ; nor do they assume to be dictated by a sense of equity ; there is always, I am assured, a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have emanated from a remote antiquity, although, in fact, no such artificial supply had ever been so much as thought...
Page 338 - The prolonged helplessness of the offspring must keep the parents together for longer and longer periods in successive epochs ; and when at last the association is so long kept up that the older children are growing mature while the younger ones still need protection, the family relations begin to become permanent. The parents have lived so long in company that to seek new companionships involves some disturbance of ingrained habits...
Page 282 - When bartering is going on each sheep must be paid for separately. Thus, suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks.
Page 282 - Once while I watched a Dammara floundering hopelessly in a calculation on one side of me, I observed Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive, as she tried to find out if they were all present, or if any were still missing. She kept puzzling and running her eyes over them, backwards and forwards, but could not satisfy herself.
Page 401 - If in ascribing goodness to God I do not mean what I mean by goodness ; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible substance, which for aught I know may be a totally different quality from that which I love and venerate — and even must, if Mr.
Page 235 - That the progress of mankind depends on the success with which the laws of phenomena are investigated, and on the extent to which a knowledge of those laws is diffused.
Page 417 - Be of comfort ! Thou art not alone, if thou have Faith. Spake we not of a Communion of Saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy ? Their heroic Sufferings rise up melodiously together to Heaven, out of all lands, and out of all times, as a sacred Miserere ; their heroic Actions also, as a boundless everlasting Psalm of Triumph.