A Manual of Anthropology, Or Science of Man Based on Modern Research by Charles BrayLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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... experience of utility , requires the guiding hand of Reason to adapt it to present conditions . Each age has had its own standard of right . No such things as sin and evil - only pain and pleasure ; the pain the necessary guar- dian of ...
... experience of utility , requires the guiding hand of Reason to adapt it to present conditions . Each age has had its own standard of right . No such things as sin and evil - only pain and pleasure ; the pain the necessary guar- dian of ...
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... experience is in favour of Dr. McLellan's notion that the condition of the skull as to width in the basilar region ( about the ears ) and corresponding vitality is correct . He also says : - " On the size of the Brain root , the ...
... experience is in favour of Dr. McLellan's notion that the condition of the skull as to width in the basilar region ( about the ears ) and corresponding vitality is correct . He also says : - " On the size of the Brain root , the ...
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... experience , and when we have been as long in the world perhaps we shall take a lesson from them . When civilisation no longer requires the pressure of population on the means of subsistence , then we may turn our attention to making ...
... experience , and when we have been as long in the world perhaps we shall take a lesson from them . When civilisation no longer requires the pressure of population on the means of subsistence , then we may turn our attention to making ...
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... experience has chiefly lain in Cheshire , and he says he has there found that consumption and anæmia follow in a very remarkable manner the course of the carboniferous system , and prevail to a far less extent among the dwellers in the ...
... experience has chiefly lain in Cheshire , and he says he has there found that consumption and anæmia follow in a very remarkable manner the course of the carboniferous system , and prevail to a far less extent among the dwellers in the ...
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... experience . Man can transmit his experience by oral and written records , whereas animals . can transmit theirs only in the form of instincts . Volun- tary acts many times repeated become involuntary or automatic — that is , take place ...
... experience . Man can transmit his experience by oral and written records , whereas animals . can transmit theirs only in the form of instincts . Volun- tary acts many times repeated become involuntary or automatic — that is , take place ...
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