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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Page ix
... knowledge ( Metaphysics ) have viewed with apprehension the rapid advances of Physiology , from seeing that it would attempt the final solution of problems which have exercised the ingenuity of the last twenty cen- turies . In this they ...
... knowledge ( Metaphysics ) have viewed with apprehension the rapid advances of Physiology , from seeing that it would attempt the final solution of problems which have exercised the ingenuity of the last twenty cen- turies . In this they ...
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... knowledge requires ; and it is fortunate that a hundred million years , more or less , make very little difference to our comfort at present . Authority is rather in favour of the smaller estimate . Our earth and planetary system , and ...
... knowledge requires ; and it is fortunate that a hundred million years , more or less , make very little difference to our comfort at present . Authority is rather in favour of the smaller estimate . Our earth and planetary system , and ...
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... knowledge of 88 planets instead of 7 , and how many more there are , time and our telescopes can alone determine . Mars is supposed most nearly to resemble our earth . Its year is almost twice as long as ours ; its density less than ...
... knowledge of 88 planets instead of 7 , and how many more there are , time and our telescopes can alone determine . Mars is supposed most nearly to resemble our earth . Its year is almost twice as long as ours ; its density less than ...
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... knowledge are ideas , not things . Its real creation was in the perception of it by the creatures upon it , and then only so much of it as was perceived . Mind we find only in connection with nervous matter , and it will very much ...
... knowledge are ideas , not things . Its real creation was in the perception of it by the creatures upon it , and then only so much of it as was perceived . Mind we find only in connection with nervous matter , and it will very much ...
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... knowledge , with feeling , and with action . For after all , * * what do we know of this terrible " . * * ' matter , ' except as a 66 * On this subject we would refer the more curious reader to The Mystery of Being ; or are Ultimate ...
... knowledge , with feeling , and with action . For after all , * * what do we know of this terrible " . * * ' matter , ' except as a 66 * On this subject we would refer the more curious reader to The Mystery of Being ; or are Ultimate ...
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