PRIMITIVE CULTURE

iiFirst Edition     April, 1871.
Second Edition    November, 1873.
Third Edition     December, 1891.
Fourth Edition    October, 1903.
Fifth Edition     January, 1913.
Sixth Edition     June, 1920.

iiiPRIMITIVE CULTURE

RESEARCHES INTO THE DEVELOPMENT

OF MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION

LANGUAGE, ART, AND CUSTOM

BY EDWARD B. TYLOR, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.

PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

AUTHOR OF “RESEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND,” ETC.

“Ce n’est pas dans les possibilités, c’est dans l’homme même qu’il

faut étudier l’homme: il ne s’agit pas d’imaginer ce qu’il auroit pû

ou dû faire, mais de regarder ce qu’il fait.”—De Brosses.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1920

ivPrinted in U.S.A.

[Rights of Translation and Reproduction reserved]

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The present volumes, uniform with the previous volume of‘Researches into the Early History of Mankind’ (1st Ed.1865; 2nd Ed. 1870), carry on the investigation of Cultureinto other branches of thought and belief, art and custom.During the past six years I have taken occasion to bringtentatively before the public some of the principal pointsof new evidence and argument here advanced. The doctrineof survival in culture, the bearing of directly-expressivelanguage and the invention of numerals on the problem ofearly civilization, the place of myth in the primitive historyof the human mind, the development of the animisticphilosophy of religion, and the origin of rites and ceremonies,have been discussed in various papers and lectures,^[1]

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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