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A REVIEW of these two volumes must be the funeifal oration not only of a good worker, but also of a school the best traditions of which he worthily represented. Of this school Tylor may be considered the father. He proceeded by culling illustrations from the whole world and in making generalisations without any strict method. It was the only course open to those pioneers to whom only fragments were as a rule available. They were like surveyors on the top of a mountain picking out the salient features of the landscape, indicating roughly the trace, and leaving it to others to work it out in detail.
Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia.
By Robert W. Williamson. Vol. 1. Pp. xxi + 399. Vol. 2. Pp. vi + 398. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 50s. net.
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HOCART, A. Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia . Nature 133, 663–664 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133663a0
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