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 vi
... less curious than the French , they have certainly been more important . It is now nearly a century since Dr. Francis Joseph Gall , a physician of Vienna , when a school - boy , accidentally made the discovery of a connection between ...
... less curious than the French , they have certainly been more important . It is now nearly a century since Dr. Francis Joseph Gall , a physician of Vienna , when a school - boy , accidentally made the discovery of a connection between ...
Page vii
... less interested in the head than the tail ; never- theless I am bound to say , notwithstanding the scorn and contempt to which such an assertion will probably subject me , that thirty - six years ' close and continued observation have ...
... less interested in the head than the tail ; never- theless I am bound to say , notwithstanding the scorn and contempt to which such an assertion will probably subject me , that thirty - six years ' close and continued observation have ...
Page viii
... less opportunity for observation . I can only say I should think them highly probable , as they seem very necessary parts of our mental system . There may be a great deal more to know , and what we do know may be more per- fectly known ...
... less opportunity for observation . I can only say I should think them highly probable , as they seem very necessary parts of our mental system . There may be a great deal more to know , and what we do know may be more per- fectly known ...
Page xi
... less openly , according to their courage and honesty , that the attempt to solve such problems as the moral philosopher deals with " can lead to no results save that of entangling the inquirer in vague speculations , inca- pable alike ...
... less openly , according to their courage and honesty , that the attempt to solve such problems as the moral philosopher deals with " can lead to no results save that of entangling the inquirer in vague speculations , inca- pable alike ...
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... 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 indeed the whole Cosmos , are supposed to have existed originally as nebulous ...
... 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 indeed the whole Cosmos , are supposed to have existed originally as nebulous ...
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