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From the viewpoint of evolutionism—which, by the way, is typically anthropocentric—early or mythical culture is primitive and therefore hardly a culture at all. Such a culture seems to be wholly chaotic, un-sequential, unsystematic, or aimless. It seems to be a result of early man’s primitive drives, passions and wild phantasies. From this viewpoint, primitive man lacks order, a rationally worked-out system, and is totally unguided by intellectually founded sequence.
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© 1972 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Vycinas, V. (1972). Gods. In: Search for Gods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2816-5_3
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