The childhood of religionsD. Appleton, 1875 - 288 páginas |
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... believed the earth to be flat and fixed , and travelling daily across the senses led have learnt anything of the vastness and distance of the sun and stars , and you might have made the most simple guesses about these matters , as did ...
... believed the earth to be flat and fixed , and travelling daily across the senses led have learnt anything of the vastness and distance of the sun and stars , and you might have made the most simple guesses about these matters , as did ...
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... believed to be full of windows , which were opened whenever it was needful to let the rain through . The notion that the sky is a great roof covering in a flat world is an idea easily framed by the unlearned ; the Polynesians , for ...
... believed to be full of windows , which were opened whenever it was needful to let the rain through . The notion that the sky is a great roof covering in a flat world is an idea easily framed by the unlearned ; the Polynesians , for ...
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... believed every word of those legends to be true , and there is a large number who still believe this , strangely overlooking the fact that the account given in the first chapter of Genesis of the mode and order in which things were made ...
... believed every word of those legends to be true , and there is a large number who still believe this , strangely overlooking the fact that the account given in the first chapter of Genesis of the mode and order in which things were made ...
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... believed that heaven and earth were made out of a divided egg , the upper half being heaven , the yolk being earth , and the white fluid the all - surrounding ocean ) . Brahma then drew forth mind and created a number of smaller gods ...
... believed that heaven and earth were made out of a divided egg , the upper half being heaven , the yolk being earth , and the white fluid the all - surrounding ocean ) . Brahma then drew forth mind and created a number of smaller gods ...
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... believed that the particles of matter which compose the solar system ( and what has now to be said applies to the formation of every other solar system ) were once in a gas - like state , and in the vast space over which they were ...
... believed that the particles of matter which compose the solar system ( and what has now to be said applies to the formation of every other solar system ) were once in a gas - like state , and in the vast space over which they were ...
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