 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1898 - 534 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1895 - 1196 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1895 - 1164 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1896 - 420 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1896 - 414 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | 1898 - 758 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The .same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1898 - 768 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
 | 1898 - 534 pages
...everywhere renders tradition, taken literally, so untrustworthy, so misleading a witness to fact. The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition....no space to dwell. But their essential identity is overlaid with external differences due to local surroundings, racial peculiarities, higher or lower... | |
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The same law, however, does not apply to every species of tradition. Some species fall within the lines of the popular imagination ; and it is then not a distorting but a conservative force. The essential identity of so many stories, customs and superstitions... 