Excerpt from Notes on West African Categories Mind by Dr. A. Van Gennep in the Revue de [hz'stoz're a'es Re'lzlgz'ons. On page 224, however, he states that Miss Werner, in a review of the same book, had been clever enough to point out that there were a number of discordances between my Xivili and Bentley's Congo. On this occasion I have not found it necessary to use Xivili and have gone to Bentley for my words, hoping in this way, by using a language the dictionary of which is easily obtained, my work may be of more ...
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Excerpt from Notes on West African Categories Mind by Dr. A. Van Gennep in the Revue de [hz'stoz're a'es Re'lzlgz'ons. On page 224, however, he states that Miss Werner, in a review of the same book, had been clever enough to point out that there were a number of discordances between my Xivili and Bentley's Congo. On this occasion I have not found it necessary to use Xivili and have gone to Bentley for my words, hoping in this way, by using a language the dictionary of which is easily obtained, my work may be of more general interest and more easily criticised. Mistakes are sure to be found, but they will some day be corrected, and I can only hope that such as they are they will not interfere very much with the end Van Gennep, Miss Werner, and others have in common with myself, 216. The philological foundation of the categories I have noted as existing at the back of the Black man's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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