Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result.

Throughout the 19th century, the Great Powers shared different aims over the " Eastern Question " and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, each party held the presidency for roughly equal periods of time.

Omniglot goes so far as to assert " Corsican first appeared in writing towards the end of the 19th century ...." Throughout the 19th and 18th century there was a steady stream of writers in Corsican, many of whom wrote also in other languages.

Throughout the 19th century, these anti-Napoleonic Freikorps were greatly praised and glorified by German nationalists, and a heroic myth built up around their exploits.

Throughout the 19th century there were frequent meetings under the Tree, including both General Assemblies and other political events.

Throughout the 19th century in France, the main line dividing left and right was between supporters of the French Republic and those of the Monarchy.

Throughout industrialization in the late 19th century about 10 percent of the Masurian populace emigrated to the Ruhr Area, where about 180, 000 Masurians lived in 1914.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Throughout the 19th century, governments led from the Lords had often suffered difficulties governing alongside ministers sat in the Commons.

Throughout the 19th century, South Georgia was a sealers ' base as well as a whalers ' base beginning in the 20th century, until whaling ended in the 1960s.

Throughout the 19th century the Regular U. S. Army was small, and the state militias provided the majority of the troops during the Mexican-American War, the start of the American Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.

Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.

Throughout the 19th century, Philadelphia had a variety of industries and businesses, the largest being textiles.

Throughout the first quarter of the 19th century, the United States Navy repeatedly engaged pirates in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean.

Throughout the 19th century, the port city of Galveston grew rapidly and the Strand was considered the region's primary business center.

Throughout the 19th century, the main line dividing Left and Right in France was between supporters of the Republic and supporters of the Monarchy.

Throughout the 19th century, the concertina was a popular instrument.

Throughout the 19th century, the country's climate continued to grow worse, resulting in mass emigration to the New World, particularly Manitoba in Canada.

Throughout the Mexican national history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Guadalupan name and image have been unifying national symbols ; the first President of Mexico ( 1824 – 29 ) changed his name from José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix to Guadalupe Victoria in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Throughout the 19th century, it was only in the tradition of all-male cathedral choirs that the countertenor voice had survived.

Throughout the 19th century, a modest economic growth took place.

Throughout the work of the later ninth century a calm, severe serenity displays itself.

Throughout the nineteenth century Christianity exerted its influence on American society as a whole primarily through the Protestantism of the older stock.

Throughout the 18th century in France, a new wealthy and influential middle-class was beginning to rise, even though the royalty and nobility continued to be patrons of the arts.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

Throughout the century, the Party adopted a number of different names.

Throughout the Yuan Dynasty, which lasted less than a century, there was relatively strong sentiment among the populace against the Mongol rule.

Throughout part of the 20th century, some Canadian newspapers adopted American spellings ; for example, color as opposed to the British-based colour.

Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells by Chirnside, Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century.

Throughout the 20th century a minority of prominent scholars, such as John A. T. Robinson, have argued that John is as historically reliable as the synoptics.

Throughout the next century there was a strong expansion of national culture and a dissolution in central authority.

Throughout the century, Castilian ( what is also known today as Spanish ) gained a growing prominence in the Kingdom of Castile as the language of culture and communication, at the expense of Leonese and of other close dialects.

Throughout the 20th century, Honduras's agriculture has been dominated first by bananas and then to a lesser extent by coffee and sugar.

Throughout the 7th and 8th century power fluctuated between the larger kingdoms.

Throughout the twentieth century, human exploitation, shifting agriculture, forest fires, and uncontrolled grazing denuded large areas of Iraq ’ s natural forests, which in 2005 were almost exclusively confined to the northeastern highlands.

Throughout the later half of the 18th century, Louisiana was a pawn on the chessboard of European politics.

Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

Throughout the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, Christianity was resolving fundamental questions of identity, and the dispute between the orthodox and the monophysites became the cause of serious disorder, expressed through allegiance to the horse-racing parties of the Blues and the Greens.

Throughout the early history of jazz, double bass players either learned the instrument informally, or from getting classical training early on, as in the case of Ron Carter and Charles Mingus.

Throughout the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, American scholar Bertrand Harris Bronson published an exhaustive, four-volume collection of the then-known variations of both the texts and tunes associated with what came to be known as the Child Canon.

Throughout the rest of his life in Geneva, he maintained several friendships from his early years including Montmor, Cordier, Cop, Farel, Melanchthon and Bullinger.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international – especially Japanese — firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.

Throughout the early Paleozoic, the Earth's landmass was broken up into a substantial number of continents.

Throughout the early history of the Navarrese kingdom, there were frequent skirmishes with the Carolingian Empire, from which it maintained its independence, a key feature of its history until 1513.

Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U. S. Patent Office.

Throughout the early morning hours, groups of armed whites and blacks squared off in gunfights.

Throughout the early stages of the Cold War, NATO relied on the Royal Air Force to threaten key cities in European Russia.

Throughout the early modern period, the English term " witch " was not exclusively negative in meaning, and could also indicate cunning folk.

Throughout the early history of film distribution, theater owners hired orchestras to attend film showings and provide soundtracks.

Throughout the rise of his career he was estranged from Christianity and it was not until he reached his early forties that he experienced a spiritual crisis.

Throughout time, the Zanni grew to be a popular figure who were first seen in commedia as early as the fourteenth century.

Throughout the early years of French rule, French military contingents were sent inland to establish new posts.

Throughout the early drafts, and through to the first edition of The Hobbit Bladorthin / Gandalf is described as being a " little old man ", distinct from a dwarf, but not of the full human stature that would later be described in The Lord of the Rings.

Throughout the year, growers must be mindful of the hazards of fungal disease and early spring frost.

Throughout the early and mid-20th century they continued to be successful.