All observers have been struck with their destitution and squalor; yet when the impressions are particularized they are seen to denote absence of the poor luxuries, rather than the bare necessities, of primitive life.
The warpath frenzy is one of the fundamental, even if little understood, facts of primitive life, and the character of the savage tribe can not properly be weighed without appreciation of it.
The effect of his recourse to "primitive life" is simply to throw into the foreground, in a highly unreal perspective, those features which lend themselves to interpretation in terms of the normalised competitive system.
The best excuse that can be offered for these excursions into "primitive life" is that they have substantially nothing to do with the main argument of the book, being of the nature of harmless and graceful misinformation.
In a market, it is true, values are established and their amounts are expressed in ways that cannot be adopted in primitive life.
In primitive life men do their own carrying; but in civilized states the common carrier does most of it, and so imparts place utility to matter on the most extensive scale.
In primitive life no such class exists; and yet form utilities of every kind are created, since men make for themselves the goods that they use and adapt them in shape and in quantity to their current needs.
It is at this point that men measure values in primitive life and in civilized life.
Bearing in mind this fact, we must first describe the external traits of primitive culture, and then consider the psychological factors of primitive life.
The relation of convention to primitive life is so well understood nowadays that the Rousseauist has reversed his argument.
In primitive life, the family furnished a full and adequate career for men and women alike.
In primitive life a man may be a man by virtue of what he is; to-day he may have all the rights and privileges of any man by virtue of what he possesses.
These conditions may prevail even in primitive life, but to-day they have been vastly increased through the fact that with advancing civilization money was devised.
So far as primitive lifeis concerned, the evidence of this is simply overwhelming.
In primitive life, in short, the dominant idea is not that of superiority in relation to woman, but that of difference.
This is the outstanding, dominating fact in primitive life.
But even in primitive life, so exuberant and resilient is human energy that it is not exhausted by necessary labors.
It may be a conflict, as in primitive life, between individuals seeking food from the same source.
The context in which art appears in primitive life is paralleled in civilized society.
In the hunting stage of primitive life, and even in the pastoral stage, there was little private property, and hence little opportunity for the development of the acquisitive instinct.
In primitive life there is a drastic repression of any incipient rebelliousness, through the enforcement of custom or explicit law in the ways we have indicated; the fear of a heavy discouragement to any innovator.
It is practically co-extensive with man's wanderings, and the greatness of the territory it covers marks it off as another of the universal relics of man's primitive life.
Both these features are perfectly impossible to modern creative fancy, and I venture to think we shall find their true origin in the actual facts of primitive life, not in the wondrous flight of primitive fancy.
Introduction General Statement The Challenge The Myth, Its Meaning and Function in Primitive Life II.
There is much reason to suppose that the Pongol is one of the most complete and interesting of these remnants of primitive life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primitive life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
