Books by "George W. Meyer"
12 books found
The Golden Bough: Adonis, Attis, Osiris: studies in the history of oriental religion (2 v.)
by James George Frazer
1930
Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity
by George Miller Beard, Alphonso David Rockwell
1883
Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope During the Years 1880-?-1909 ...
by Cape of Good Hope. Supreme Court, Sir Henry Hubert Juta, Clarkson Henry Tredgold, W. Porter Buchanan, Frederick George Gardiner, Alexander Fraser Russell, P. S. Twentyman-Jones, H. C. Payne, Basil Kellett Long, Gerard Molyneux Swift
1904