The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... nature is symbolised ; that magic reflects itself in the mythology , and in the highest antiquity was a kind of natural philosophy . If the mysteries themselves have remained unsolved riddles , so that we only in a fragmentary and ...
... nature is symbolised ; that magic reflects itself in the mythology , and in the highest antiquity was a kind of natural philosophy . If the mysteries themselves have remained unsolved riddles , so that we only in a fragmentary and ...
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... natural science , so that at least a great portion of those poetic enigmas may have rested originally on views of natural philosophy . If this were the case , then magic and the heal- ing art under it would be things also to be ...
... natural science , so that at least a great portion of those poetic enigmas may have rested originally on views of natural philosophy . If this were the case , then magic and the heal- ing art under it would be things also to be ...
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... nature , a half - conscious infantine speech of actuality advancing through the dark labyrinth of spiritual life ... NATURAL SCIENCE THE ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY . 3 Natural Science the Origin of Mythology.
... nature , a half - conscious infantine speech of actuality advancing through the dark labyrinth of spiritual life ... NATURAL SCIENCE THE ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY . 3 Natural Science the Origin of Mythology.
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... nature : and the circumstances of art must first be attended to . The original representations must , therefore , have certainly been images of natural objects , and the feelings connected with them must consist of pleasure or pain ...
... nature : and the circumstances of art must first be attended to . The original representations must , therefore , have certainly been images of natural objects , and the feelings connected with them must consist of pleasure or pain ...
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... natural science . The most ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and ...
... natural science . The most ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and ...
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