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Nevertheless, although most devout turfites agree with the emphatic duke, they do not idolize their diminutive fetishes a whit the less; they worship the manikin with a touching and droll devotion, and, when they know him to be a confirmed scamp, they admire his cleverness, and try to find out which way the little rogue's interest lies, so that they may follow him.
Thus isolated, he was like a solitary cuckoo contemplating the gyrations of a flock of rooks. Their motions seemed a little meaningless to one so far removed from all the fetishes and shibboleths of Westminster. He heard them discussing Miltoun's speech, the real significance of which apparently had only just been grasped.
Major Ellis argues that the revolution from amateur to priestly selection of fetishes could not occur in 190 years, 'over a vast tract of country, amongst peoples living in semi-isolated communities, in the midst of pathless forests, where there is but little opportunity for the exchange of ideas, and where we know they have been uninfluenced by any higher race.
But when the country grew older and better roads had been built and the Egyptians had begun to travel, the old "fetishes," as such chunks of stone and wood were called, lost their importance and were thrown away or were left in a neglected corner or were used as doorsteps or chairs.
"The white men would be mad to think of marching against the city of the great king. We should make great fetish, and they would all die when they had crossed the river." "I don't think, General," Frank said dryly, "that the fetishes of the black man have any effect upon the white men. A fetish has power when it is believed in.
But there are not many who have the Umabakula." Dr. Callaway's informant only knew two Umabakulists, John was quite satisfied, paid his shilling, and went home. The sticks are about a foot long. It is not reported that they are moved by spirits, nor do they seem to be regarded as fetishes. Mr. Tylor also cites a form of the familiar pendulum experiment.
For reason and justice have in them something persuasive and irresistible; but a fetish or mechanical maxim, like this of the Nonconformists, has in it nothing at all to conciliate either the affections or the understanding; nay, it provokes the counter-employment of other fetishes or mechanical maxims on the opposite side, by which the confusion and hostility already prevalent are heightened.
Hence the elements and intrinsic logical form of science are identical with those through which mythical representations and the inward life of the human intelligence are developed. Besides, as we have before remarked, the empirical knowledge of things begins and is perfected in the superstitions of fetishes and myths.
His companion goddess was Isis, the cow, or woman with cow's horns, who personified the earth, and was mother of Horus. There were countless gods of the people: trees, serpents and family fetishes.
The painted warriors became panic-stricken; they flung their guns and powder-kegs away, forgot their chief, and all thoughts of loyalty, and fled on the instant, fear lifting their heels high in the air; or, tugging at their eye-balls, and kneading the senses confusedly, they saw, heard, and suspected nothing, save that the limbo of fetishes had suddenly broken loose!
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