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Worship is transferred from the great beings who are the original gods of the tribe and whom it still professes in a vague way to believe, to numerous smaller beings, and from the good gods to the bad. Spirits, Human or Quasi-human, came First. Is the worship of spirits then the original form of religions. This has been powerfully maintained in this country by Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. Tylor.
But when once you worship an imaginary quasi-human being who throws the lightning, you are in a dilemma. Either you have to admit that you are worshipping and flattering a being with no moral sense, because he happens to be dangerous, or else you have to invent reasons for his wrath against the people who happen to be struck. And they are pretty sure to be bad reasons.
He leaned heavily on the arm of the youth; peevish sounds, quasi-human, proceeded from his colourless lips. And now he was almost speaking; desirous, it seemed, of formulating some truth too deep for human utterance. "I bet I know what he is saying," whispered Keith. "It's something about the Man-God." The Russian Government is notoriously tender-hearted. But even the worm will turn. . . .
They are bred, fed, trained, groomed, housed, cared for, in a way to remind one of the Houyhnhnms, and strikingly contrasting with the conditions of life among the wretched classes whose existence is hardly more tolerable than that of those quasi-human beings under whose name it pleased the fierce satirist to degrade humanity.
The gods of India were not derived from Greece but they were stereotyped under the influence of western art to this extent that familiarity with such figures as Apollo and Pallas encouraged the Hindus to represent their gods and heroes in human or quasi-human shapes.
GENERAL APPEARANCE A lady's little dog intelligent, sprightly, robust, of compact appearance reminding one of a cob, and captivating the attention by a quasi-human expression. HEAD Rounded, furnished with somewhat hard, irregular hairs, longer round the eyes, on the nose and cheeks. EARS Erect when cropped as in Belgium, semi-erect when uncropped.
I retained even then a clinging hope of some quasi-human evidence, some pinnacle of building, some house or engine, but everywhere one looked spread the tumbled rocks in peaks and crests, and the darting scrub and those bulging cacti that swelled and swelled, a flat negation as it seemed of all such hope. "It looks as though these plants had it to themselves," I said.
Formal prayer is sometimes made to the animal in important tribal ceremonies, as in British Columbia a boy is ordered by the chief to pray to the first salmon sighted for a good catch; here the good will of the salmon tribe and the quasi-human intelligence of the fish are assumed.
To him her dripping hand she softly kist, And anxiously began to plait and twist The gestures of the nymph are as ludicrous as could be found in an Academy or Salon picture. Keats's human or quasi-human beings are seldom more than decorations, but this is a commonplace decoration. The figures in The Eve of St.
"He is afraid of those who walk erect as we do," he made answer. Those who walk erect Dalgard was quick to interpret that. He knew that Those Others were biped, quasi-human in form, closer in physical appearance to the colonists than to the mermen.
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