Meanings of primitive belief in English

In primitive belief, the first received the predominant emphasis; the higher religions have emphasized the second.

By now, I think, this body of primitive belief and practice had become a real religion.

Aug. Thebaud, in his "Gentilism," has proved to have been the primitive belief of all nations.

Such, according to Tacitus, was the supreme God of the Germans, and such was the primitive belief of mankind.

Some Oriental peoples kept the primitive belief that after death all men, good and bad alike, suffered the same fate.

The understanding of this dualism together with the primitive belief in Mana and Sympathetic Magic explains much in the attitude of man toward woman.

Note the childish optimism expressed in the verses, reflecting a primitive belief that the long-dead Elder Gods yet possessed any influence amongst the stars.

In estimating the significance of the lover's attitude in this matter, it is important to realize the position which scatologic conceptions took in primitive belief.

Primitive beliefs regarding the stars were of similar character in various parts of the world.

They are also the illuminating record of the primitive beliefs, customs, and aspirations of their Semitic ancestors.

See Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," p. 64.

See Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," 1882, pp.

Primitive belief generally deifies rivers.

I felt shock, disgust, rage, felt again the hatred I had felt at the burning-hatred for their stupid, primitive beliefs.

But in such methods of argument due recognition is not given to the outstanding fact in the history of primitive beliefs.

Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," p. 63; Fiske, "Myth and Myth Makers," 1873, pp.