 | Alfred Burdon Ellis - Akan language - 1887 - 366 pages
...god; and every native with whom I have conversed upon the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice...to some such object as a stone, which, of itself, it would be perfectly obvious to his senses, was a stone only, and nothing more. Now, in the case of... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Fetishism - 1906 - 128 pages
...native with whom I have conversed on the subject,' writes Ellis, 'has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself it would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more' (15, 192). So the Maori... | |
 | ALFRED C. HADDON, SC.D.F.R.S. - 1906 - 116 pages
...native with whom I have conversed on the subject,' writes Ellis, 'has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself it would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more' (15, 192). So the Maori... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - Religion - 1908 - 344 pages
...carelessness of expression; the evidence of Colonel Ellis, an observer whose competence is undoubted, is: "Every native with whom I have conversed on the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - Religion - 1908 - 332 pages
...carelessness of expression; the evidence of Colonel Ellis, an observer whose competence is undoubted, is: "Every native with whom I have conversed on the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Fetishism - 1910 - 122 pages
...native with whom I have conversed on the subject,' writes Ellis, 'has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself it would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more' (15, 192). So the Maori... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Fetishism - 1921 - 118 pages
...native with whom I have conversed on the subject," writes Ellis, 'has laughed at the possibility of it, being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself it would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more' (15, 192). So the Maori... | |
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Every native with whom I have conversed on the subject has laughed at the possibility of its being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only... 