Word: shaper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instinct has in many cases been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing and men simply to have learned from him. From the Zulus and Polynesians to the American Indians, beliefs of this sort have been held...