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Now these conclusions, the Quakers say, seem to have been sanctioned, in a great measure, by the primitive practice for the three first centuries of the church, or till the darkness of apostacy began to overwhelm the religious world.
But let us go back and see whence it came trace the connection between the complex, highly influential institution of to-day and the simple offshoot of the home of primitive times. Just when it was first instituted, nobody knows; but in essential features it is very ancient.
Very good; we know that well within historic times the savage method of taking wives has been by forcible capture. Much more may we suppose force to have been used wherever possible in more primitive periods. Now, a strong woman would have no object to gain in making captive a weaker man for any sexual purpose, and would not therefore pursue him.
There are no texts extant in which images are exclusively used, but we can point to a few where the ideograms have preserved their primitive forms sufficiently to enable us to recognize their origin with certainty.
The Hopi, like many primitive people, believe that when a bird sings he is weaving a magic spell, and so they have songs for special magic too; some for grinding, for weaving, for planting, others for hunting, and still others for war; all definitely to gain the favor of the gods in these particular occupations. Without books and without writing the Hopi have an extensive literature.
You pass abruptly from the seat of the most refined arts into the most primitive solitude, where the pulse of life hardly beats. The desolation of the Campagna, that green motionless sea of silence, comes up to and almost washes the walls of the city.
I cannot, however, but consider myself as one of the unhappy persons, who make themselves wretched by there dissatisfaction with the stations which God has placed them in; for, not to take a review of my primitive condition, and my father's excellent advice, the going contrary to which was, as I may say, my original sin, the following mistakes of the same nature certainly had been the means of my present unhappy station.
A primitive jews'-harp, universally found among the tribes, is played to frighten away antohs, and so is the flute. A kindly antoh may enter a man and become his guardian spirit, to whom he occasionally offers food, but it never remains long because that would make the man insane.
So far, he didn't know enough to have an opinion, and said so, adding: "What I saw of the village in the screen from the car, it looked pretty primitive. Of course, gunpowder's one of those things a primitive people could discover by accident, if the ingredients were available." "We won't take any chances, then." "You think they're hostile? I was hoping they were coming out to parley with us."
By a flight of steps cut in the banks we ascended to the platform above the river on which Mr. Y -'s house stood. It was a large, rough-looking, log building, surrounded by barns and sheds of the same primitive material.
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