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Example sentences for "primitive people"

  • It is not a simple state of undifferentiated mind, but a complex and derivative one--absolutely incomprehensible to a primitive people.

  • Self-suppression" cannot be a characteristic of a primitive people, a people that has not yet reached the stage of consciousness of self.

  • Agricultural, primitive people of Orient were wholly, 445-m.

  • Stars observed by primitive people to be more regular than the Sun, 445-m.

  • He belongs to that extensive stock of primitive people of which the Malay is the most commonly named.

  • They have no dolls and, I have never seen them play with the puppies which are scattered throughout the pueblo much of the year -- both common playthings for the girls of primitive people.

  • In Union Province there are about 4,400 primitive people, generally called "Igorrotes.

  • The distance between an imitation of the hunt, as found among the diversions of primitive people, and a modern play is great, and yet no complete idea of the latter can be acquired without some conception of dramatic origins.

  • There are evidences that this region, like Chaldea, was occupied first by a primitive people, probably belonging to the Turanian race.

  • Some form and degree of worship has been found among all primitive people and is cruder or more elevated according to the stage of development.

  • A study of the ancient Chinese calendar furnishes, moreover, an indication of the way in which the numeral 12 came to be recognized and adopted by primitive people.

  • Before commenting upon the above summary, and as its necessary complement, a brief examination must be made of the various modes in which the phenomenon of celestial axial rotation figured in the rituals of primitive people.

  • They are actuated by the desire on the part of primitive people to meet nutritive demands.

  • These nature rites consist of rain making ceremonies, sun dances, and numerous other procedures which are carried out by primitive people because of their supposed service in increasing the products of the earth.

  • From the study of these remnants of former days, we are able to learn the trends of thought which activated and inspired the minds of primitive people.

  • I am not sufficiently acquainted with the history of the corvee in Egypt or the rajakarya of Ceylon to say whether they, like the lala, were instituted to meet the necessity of combination among a primitive people.

  • But among no primitive people in the world, perhaps, is found so great a diversity of institutions relating to land as among the Fijians.

  • The Montenegrins are a primitive people; the men hunt and fight, the women work.

  • Etruscans, a primitive people of Italy; at one time united in a confederation of twelve States; gradually absorbed by the growing Roman power, and who were famous for their artistic work in iron and bronze.

  • In the heat and excitement of the crowd, as in the choral dances of primitive people, there is for the moment what may be described as complete fusion of the social forces.

  • The first may be called "cosmic anarchy," in which we find "primitive people" now living.

  • At present it is sufficient for my purpose to have secured the admission that the peasants of Europe do not as a whole use their mental powers in a much more logical or abstract manner than do primitive people.

  • The ethnologists collected objective descriptions of the behavior of primitive people.

  • Vermin, respect shown by primitive people for, ii.

  • In a former chapter we saw that, in the opinion of primitive people, the soul may temporarily absent itself from the body without causing death.

  • The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested to primitive people by the observation that while the oak is deciduous, the mistletoe which grows on it is evergreen.

  • Thus it comes about that the endeavour of primitive people to make a clean sweep of all their troubles generally takes the form of a grand hunting out and expulsion of devils or ghosts.

  • The dances, feasts, and games of primitive people, wherein they rehearse hunting and war and act and dance out their legends, bring individuals and tribes together.

  • Interest in names was very strong throughout, as in primitive people.

  • Ferrero and others have shown that the more intense activities of primitive people tend to be rhythmic and with strongly automatic features.

  • Let the new ruler even favor slavery (and in what does slavery consist except in contempt and suppression of the individuality of a primitive people?

  • This probably casts light on many other so-called fetish collections of primitive people, as for example those of the North American Indians.

  • This fact is familiar with all hunting, and it is famous in the trailing of both men and animals by American Indians and by primitive people generally.

  • The analogy with annual records of primitive people, however, suggests this stringing together.

  • The moon’s phases were calculated to take the attention of primitive people, and must early have done so.

  • The problem of death early engaged the attention of primitive people.

  • At bottom, all that is left over as being peculiar to Le Bon are the two notions of the unconscious and of the comparison with the mental life of primitive people, and even these had naturally often been alluded to before him.

  • Le Bon himself shows us the way by pointing to its similarity with the mental life of primitive people and of children (p.

  • Some other features in Le Bon's description show in a clear light how well justified is the identification of the group mind with the mind of primitive people.


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