And elsewhere he adds, “I see no reason why we should not accept them as real survivals of a period of speech during which pantomime, gesture, pointing with the fingers to actual things were still indispensable ingredients of all conversation.
They are not so muchsurvivals of neolithic forms, as imitations, in the cheaper material of flint, of metallic forms for rough work and common use.
Another argument in favour of the general thesis that savagery left deep marks on Greek life in general, and on myth in particular, may be derived from survivals of totemism in ritual and legend.
On the whole, the Orphic fragments appear to contain survivals of savage myths of the origin of things blended with purer speculations.
Now we have acknowledged savage survivals of ugly rites in the Greek mysteries.
We are especially interested in this criticism, because most of the myths which we profess to explain as survivals of savagery are narrated in the Brahmanas.
Had he known the evidence as to savage initiations, he would have been confirmed in his opinion, for many of the singular Greek rites are clearly survivals from savagery.
Athwart all these lower myths, survivals from the savage stage, comes what Garcilasso regards as the philosophical Inca belief in Pachacamac.
In short, this method teaches us to recognise in all those strange stories the survivals of a barbaric age, long passed away, but enduring to later times in the form of religious traditions, of all traditions the most persistent.
Lafitau was perhaps the first writer who ever explained certain features in Greek and other ancient myths and practices as survivals from totemism.
These are clearly survivals from a stage of Greek culture earlier than the city state, earlier than the heroic age of the roving Greek Vikings, and far earlier than the Greek colonies.
Their highest religious conceptions, therefore, are not to be disposed of as survivals of a religion of the ghosts of such chiefs as the Australians are not shown ever to have recognised.
The circuits about the old ruin are regarded as survivals of the rites which took place in former times at Old Walpi.
A very large number of words and phrases, many of them now exclusively American, are similar survivals from the English of the seventeenth century, long since obsolete or merely provincial in England.
The phenomenon mentioned in the text may be observed in all the Cartularies, and there is no reason to think that the free rents which occur in them are already antiquated survivals of agreements which had lost their economic sense.
And still the open-field intermixture holds its ground all through the middle ages, and we find its survivals far into modern times.
It would be hardly a fair description to say that we find many survivals of an older state of things and many indications of a new development.
However this may be, our survivals arrange themselves with this single possible exception in the direction of freedom.
But alongside of these facts, testifying to a progress towards modern times, we find survivals of a more ancient order of things, quite as incompatible with manorial husbandry.
In marked contrast with it stands the Celtic community, of which survivals were lingering for a long time in Ireland and Wales.
We may start from an examination of the single holding, and ask whether its regular shape can be explained by the requirements of its condition or by survivals of a former condition.
Our survivals of the state of things before the Conquest group themselves naturally in one direction, they are manifestations of the free element which went into the constitution of villainage.
It is interesting to note such survivals in the thirteenth century, and within the realm of feudal law the case of Rothley is of course by no means the only one[847].
It is remarkable, in looking back, to notice to what an extent this and other survivals of scholastic realism arrested or, at any rate, impeded the application of sound scientific principles to the investigation of biological phenomena.
The modern world is slowly, but surely, shaking off these and other monstrous survivals of savage delusions; and, whatever happens, it will not return to that wallowing in the mire.
Some have thought that the bread-eating and beer-drinking are survivalsof the sin-eating custom described by Aubrey, and repeated from him by others.
No one who has ever paid any attention to Wales and its ways can have failed to hear of that most celebrated rite the Bidding, which is, however, one of several picturesque survivals less well known to the outer world.
Traits of his character still linger in his descendants; and of primitive revenge, we are told, there are sufficient survivals left.
These customs can certainly not be regarded as survivals of an earlier practice of killing a human being.
Here we are on dangerous ground; nothing is more difficult than to decide whether certain customs are survivals or not.
These alms are obviously survivals of offerings to the dead themselves.
I agree with Professor Leist that all so-called survivals of a system of maternal descent in the prehistoric antiquity of the "Aryan" races are doubtful, if not false.
Self-redress in the case of adultery, and other survivals of the old system of self-redress, pp.
If the rules which prevent parents from marrying their children and brothers from marrying their sisters are survivals of ancient totemism, how shall we explain the normal aversion to such unions?
There are many words in common use in Devonshire which are almost or entirely unknown elsewhere, and which may be regarded assurvivals of ancient Saxon or, in some cases, British speech.
It should be remembered that some of the forms of Devonshire dialect which strike the educated ear as ungrammatical are really survivals of pure Saxon speech, such as was in use at the courts of Alfred the Great and Athelstan.
Be this as it may, it seems possible to trace the employment of spring locks by means of survivals from the common door-bolt.
In the absence of direct archaeological evidence we have no alternative but to avail ourselves of survivals as far as possible.
This gateway designed by Holbein is one of the few survivals of the original palace where in the open fields was once a hospital for lepers founded in 1190.
It is one of the fewsurvivals of Roman London and has been here for fifteen hundred years.
Linguistic survivals make it certain that the part of the sacrifice destined for the god was looked upon as his real food.
She clung to the inanimate survivals of her good days and her renown.
It is rather by comparison with matters as they are today, however, that these incidents loom large; they were but the survivals of a system which was already dead.
Noteworthy survivals are the richly carved sepulchres of the era.
It was eventually successful, although many survivals of old beliefs were long existent in the rural districts.
These two usages are no doubt to be classed with those marriage ceremonies which take the form of a contest between the bridegroom and the bride's relatives, and which are symbolic survivals of marriage by capture.
But suggestive survivals of the same are still to be found in the presents, which tenants and dependents bring to leading families on the day previous to the Vishu.
Their religion is in fact a conglomeration of various survivals from the different systems that have successively obtained in that part of Asia.
Most of its features seem to us to be survivals from the methods and processes of what we have called the architecture of the tent.
Where the custom has given place to more peaceable methods of procuring a wife, survivals commonly occur.
This was the forest that had stood for countless centuries, as is shown by Titanesque survivals of those unknown ages, but it remains the forest eternally young, its vital force still unimpaired by time.
But the Brazilian planter, like other feudal survivals in Europe, is exposed to the attack of every modern commercial and industrial force that is tempted to wield some sort of social authority.
If folk-lore is to become an exact science I venture to think that the problem ofsurvivals will have to undergo a serious re-examination.
And it is therefore not possible to postulate for the tales and apologues survivals of such antiquity as is now so often assumed.
There is such a medley of races, some old, some new, that it would be impossible to expect survivals from the Pelasgian or Dacian past.
In this manner they may perhaps be termed survivals, but survivals of a different kind than has been assumed hitherto.
The German private duel and the American fist fight are the modern survivals of the time when personal insults, easily taken, and private grievances were settled in the "noble way" by sword and battle-axe and torch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "survivals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
