Definitionadj. of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism
Last update: July 25, 2015
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The belief in human immortality in some form is almost universal; even in early animistic cults the germ of the idea is present, and in all the higher religions it is an important feature. [Please select]
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Only later did the animistic belief in the personalities of men, animals, and the forces of nature appear. [Please select]
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Chemists and physicians have given up talking of spirits, but in discussing social and economic questions we are still victimized by the primitive animistic tendencies of the mind. [Please select]
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If we go back sufficiently far we come to a time when the literal and the metaphorical were scarcely distinguishable, and this because science had not emerged from the early animistic extension of social relations. [Please select]
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_Pantheism_ appears in primitive religion as an animistic or polytheistic sense of the presence of a divine principle diffused throughout nature. [Please select]
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In its animistic phase this belief admitted of such relations with all living creatures, and extended the conception of life very generally to natural processes. [Please select]
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Although neither of these ideas ever wholly ceases to be animistic, they may nevertheless be applied quite independently of one another. [Please select]
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The one reduces the primitive animistic world to the lower end of its scale, the other construes it in terms of a purposive utility commensurable with that of human action. [Please select]
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The exponent of energetics, like the naive animistic thinker, attributes to nature a power like that which he feels welling up within himself. [Please select]
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