 Aryans, might naturally lead the latter to speak of them, in the highly figurative language of an imaginative people in the first stage of civilisation, as ghosts and demons, or even to conceive of their hidden assailants as possessed of magical and superhuman...  Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh - Page 3181877Full view - About this book
 | John Muir - Brahmanism - 1860 - 536 pages
...figurative language of an imaginative people in the first stage of civilisation, as ghosts or demons ; M or even to conceive of their hidden assailants as...magical and superhuman powers, or as headed by devils. The belief in ghosts is not obsolete (as every one knows) even in modern times and among Christian... | |
 | Brahmanism - 1860 - 554 pages
...figurative language of an imaginative people in the first stage of civilisation, as ghosts or demons ; 68 or even to conceive of their hidden assailants as...magical and superhuman powers, or as headed by devils. The belief in ghosts is not obsolete (as every one knows) even in modern times and among Christian... | |
 | John Muir - Brahmanism - 1871 - 552 pages
...highly figurative language of an imaginative people in the first stage of civilization, as ghosts or demons ; ™ or even to conceive of their hidden assailants...magical and superhuman powers, or as headed by devils. The belief in ghosts is not obsolete (as every one knows) even in modern times and among Christian... | |
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