It presents us not only with ruins of past greatness, but in the inhabited pueblos, gives us a picture of primitive times, and invites us, by a careful study of their institutions, to become acquainted with primitive society.
He thus enriches the treatment of his subject with the interest of early science, and with the associations of the open-air life of hunters, herdsmen, and mariners in primitive times.
In primitive times, when the earth appeared large to man, the rights of groups were limited to small communities which looked upon other men, the same as animals and plants, as legitimate prey.
In primitive times therefore, man lived in families, on the produce of the chase.
It illustrates most of the phases of social activity, it is simple in its organization, its history goes back to primitive times, and it is rapidly changing in the present.
The history of the community goes back to primitive times, when the clan group recognized common interests and acknowledged the leadership of the chief or head man.
It is generally believed, for example, that many related families in primitive times associated in a loosely connected horde, but the horde could not compete successfully with an organized state and gave way before it.
For there seems to be considerable unanimity among historians that in primitive times in Japan there prevailed a much larger liberty, and consequently a much higher regard, for woman than in later ages after Buddhism became powerful.
Shinto, the primitive religion of Japan, corresponded well with the needs of primitive times, when the development of strong communal life was the prime problem and necessity.
The apparently cruel customs of primitive times, in their treatment of the sick, and particularly of those suffering from contagious diseases, is the natural, not to say necessary, result of superstitious ignorance.
He might have added, that in primitive times much of the History of the World is the Biography of Great Children.
Primitive times, Antiquity, and the Middle Ages adored miracles; the eighteenth century rejected them as impostures and made game of them.
Mr. Arnold is pleasantly satirical at the expense of those who find in the Bible allusions to contemporary events, to such and such a modern custom, to such and such a dogma unknown to primitive times.
Remark, also, how easy it is, even at the present day, to confound the word make with the word create, which indeed did not exist in primitive times.
The social need for protection and love was evidently not so dominant in primitive times.
Greek history, and is far removed from the patriarchal simplicity of primitive times.
In primitive times, when confession of sins was made before the congregation, the absolution was deferred till the penance was completed; and there is no record of the use of any special formula.
To abandon any part of the inheritance of primitive times would be gross heresy, a fatal dereliction of Christian duty.
In primitive times it is ignorance of the character of natural forces that leads to the assumption of the existence of gods, and in this respect the god-idea has remained true to itself throughout.
So in primitive times an offence against the gods became an act of treason against the tribe.
One need not go back to primitive times to prove this, any country will supply instances.
There are traces of it in primitive times, among various primitive peoples.
Fire: and salt on threshold, 21; at entrance to cave or tent, in primitive times, 22 f.
Family: altar and sacrifices for, in primitive times, 3; offering itself for sacrifice in Central Africa, 8 f.
This legend, which seeks to explain the discontinuance of human sacrifices among the Egyptians, affords direct proof of their existence in primitive times.
Lippert thinks this antipathy did not exist in Egypt in primitive times.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primitive times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
