 ... what men's eyes behold is but the instrument to be used or the material to be shaped, while behind it there stands some prodigious but yet half-human creature, who grasps it with his hands or blows it with his breath. The basis on which such ideas...  Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 58by Andrew Lang - 1901Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1874 - 614 pages
...to truth now possible to them apart from revelation. As to their conceptions Mr. Tylor remarks : f ' They rest upon a broad philosophy of nature, early...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant.' As to the crudity * See 'Mi'moires hisloriquos sur I'Anstralie,' par Mgr. Rudesino Sulvado, 1854. t... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Matter - 1876 - 486 pages
...to truth now possible to them apart from revelation. As to their conceptions Mr. Tylor remarks : * " They rest upon a broad philosophy of nature, early...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant." As to the crudity of these modes of expressing a belief in the general action of superhuman causation,... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Philosophy and religion - 1876 - 492 pages
...to truth now possible to them apart from revelation. As to their conceptions Mr. Tylor remarks : * " They rest upon a broad philosophy of nature, early...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant." As to the crudity of these modes of expressing a belief in the general action of superhuman causation,... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - Creation - 1883 - 598 pages
...moon, stars, trees, rivers, winds, clouds, become personal, animate creatures, and that these notions rest upon a broad philosophy of nature, early and...thoughtful, consistent and quite really and seriously meant.2 Furthermore, this diligent writer has presented in these volumes cumulative proofs of the fact... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - Creation - 1883 - 660 pages
...become personal, animate creatures, and that these notions rest upon a broad philosophy of natnre, early and crude indeed, but thoughtful, consistent and quite really and seriously meant.'2 Furthermore, this diligent writer has presented in these volumes cumulative proofs of the... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Religion - 1899 - 388 pages
...like what Mr. Max Miiller calls " temporary insanity ". The imagination of the savage has been denned by Mr. Tylor as "midway between the conditions of...the world, which will presently be illustrated by tKe™testlmony of a powerful and ^ long "diffused set of institutions. The Christian Quiches of Guatemala... | |
 | Olive Annie Wheeler - Anthropomorphism - 1916 - 334 pages
...functions in the universe with the aid of limbs like beasts or of artificial instruments like men. . . . The basis on which such ideas as these are built is...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant." l Among others, Frazer, Lang, and Lubbock are in general agreement with this position. Thus Frazer says,... | |
 | Frederick Schleiter - Magic - 1919 - 226 pages
...functions in the universe with the aid of limbs like beasts, or of artificial instruments like men, or what men's eyes behold is but the instrument to be...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant." ' In another passage he says: "When the Aleutians thought that if any one gave offence to the moon,... | |
 | Frederick Schleiter - Magic - 1919 - 232 pages
...prodigious but yet half-human creature, who grasps it with his hands or blows it with his breath. The basts on which such ideas as these are built is not to be...consistent, and quite really and seriously meant." ' In another passage he says: "When the Aleutians thought that if any one gave offence to the moon,... | |
 | Robert Ackerman - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 374 pages
...puts it, "transfigures into myths the facts of daily experience," as the result of his application of a "broad philosophy of nature, early and crude indeed,...thoughtful, consistent, and quite really and seriously meant."21 Like Frazer after him, Tylor is an individualist, for whom the significant actors in the... | |
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