 | 1882 - 632 pages
...inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian, all objects, animate and inanimate, seem of exactly the same nature, except that they differ in the accident...the whole world is a being consisting of a body and a spirit, and differ from every other object in no respect except that of bodily form, and in the greater... | |
 | 1882 - 634 pages
...inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian, all objects, animate and inanimate, seem of exactly the same nature, except that they differ in the accident...the whole world is a being consisting of a body and a spirit, and differ from every other object in no respect except that of bodily form, and in the greater... | |
 | Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn - 1882 - 42 pages
...inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian, all objects, animate and inanimate, seem of exactly the same nature, except that they differ in the accident...the whole world is a being consisting of a body and a spirit, and differ from every other object in no respect except that of bodily form, and in the greater... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 312 pages
...included — and inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they...except that of bodily form, and in the greater or lesser degree of brute power and brute cunning consequent on the difference of bodily form and bodily... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1898 - 304 pages
...included — and inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they...world is a being, consisting of a body and spirit, and so in tumbling cataract, swirling rapid, and tossing sea, swallowing or rejecting alike the victim... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - 1906 - 190 pages
...(including man) and inanimate alike, consist each of two separable parts — a body and a spirit" (ibid.). " Every object, in the whole world, is a being, consisting...bodily form, and in the greater or less degree of brute force and brute cunning consequent on the difference of bodily form and bodily habits " (p. 350). The... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - 1909 - 324 pages
...creatures." l " To the Indian," says im Thurn, " all objects, animate and inanimate, seem of exactly the same nature, except that they differ in the accident...the whole world is a being consisting of a body and a spirit." Again : " It might be thought that this bodily motionlessness " (in rocks and stones) "... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 642 pages
...others.' f To the Indians of Guiana, Sir Everard im Thurn says, ' all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form, and have spirits which differ not at all in kind from those of men.' { All this sounds strange to us... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 632 pages
...others.' j To the Indians of Guiana, Sir Everard im Thurn says, ' all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form, and have spirits which differ not at all in kind from those of men.' 1 All this sounds strange to us... | |
 | Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco (contessa) - 1911 - 310 pages
...observer states, for instance, that to the Indian of South America " all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form." Again, it is quite sure that children are constantly lapsing into ignorance of the existence of any... | |
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On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form. 
