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Example sentences for "primitive thought"

  • This is essentially a Hottentot dialect, even though it is characterized by certain traits of primitive thought.

  • The proper tribe name is of no small interest as an index to primitive thought, and as an illustration of an early stage in linguistic development.

  • We are each of us hundreds of thousands of years old, and although our customs and beliefs have a far less venerable antiquity, their sources lie not less in primitive thought.

  • Here in our Western world there are various folk-lore customs and sayings that show familiarity with it as a vestige of primitive thought.

  • Primitive thought, with its belief in individualized personal forces, seems at any rate as far as ever from being driven by science from the field to-day.

  • If you ask them to explain themselves more fully, they will probably say that for primitive thought everything is conceived of under the form of personality.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after pausing; beloved brother; but you; convenient place; dozen paces; dramatic expression; foot soldiers; grated rind; great kingdom; hard pressed; headlong speed; lost sight; musical voice; never wanted; our government; primitive history; primitive man; primitive people; primitive races; primitive religion; primitive revelation; primitive rocks; primitive society; primitive thought; primitive times; seem good