The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... that means , the greatest influence on art and poetry . According to our fundamental ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws NATURAL SCIENCE THE ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY . 3 Natural Science the Origin of Mythology.
... that means , the greatest influence on art and poetry . According to our fundamental ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws NATURAL SCIENCE THE ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY . 3 Natural Science the Origin of Mythology.
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... influenced more by a fugitive fantasy than by tranquil reason : and this prevailing ascendancy of the imagination over the understanding is strikingly obvious in the ancient mythologies . Theories were the business of reflection , and ...
... influenced more by a fugitive fantasy than by tranquil reason : and this prevailing ascendancy of the imagination over the understanding is strikingly obvious in the ancient mythologies . Theories were the business of reflection , and ...
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... influence of sunshine produces magnetic clairvoyance , as well as the intensity of muscular power , does not this agree with the god of the old vaticination , who taught men the right and the true , according to the all - wise and ...
... influence of sunshine produces magnetic clairvoyance , as well as the intensity of muscular power , does not this agree with the god of the old vaticination , who taught men the right and the true , according to the all - wise and ...
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... influence of It endeavours to hold forth the relations of nature to time and space , and , also , to find an expression for the divine qualities of the spirit , to which the visible bodies of heaven are the most adapted , as the ...
... influence of It endeavours to hold forth the relations of nature to time and space , and , also , to find an expression for the divine qualities of the spirit , to which the visible bodies of heaven are the most adapted , as the ...
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... influential mythic circle , namely , that descending from Phoenicia and Samothrace , certainly reposes on a basis of natural philosophy , and that it was regarded by the Cabiri and Dioscuri as a hieroglyphic record of electricity and ...
... influential mythic circle , namely , that descending from Phoenicia and Samothrace , certainly reposes on a basis of natural philosophy , and that it was regarded by the Cabiri and Dioscuri as a hieroglyphic record of electricity and ...
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