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 vii
... present day , however , would seem to be much more taken up with such speculations , and as to whether our forefathers were covered with hair , had pointed ears and a tail , or whether we began with civilisation , or have ended with it ...
... present day , however , would seem to be much more taken up with such speculations , and as to whether our forefathers were covered with hair , had pointed ears and a tail , or whether we began with civilisation , or have ended with it ...
Page ix
... present even the languages they speak are to us unknown tongues . We are God's creatures ; they are ours to sympathise with , to rule , and to make happy . In all that lives we shall find something to admire , something to learn , and ...
... present even the languages they speak are to us unknown tongues . We are God's creatures ; they are ours to sympathise with , to rule , and to make happy . In all that lives we shall find something to admire , something to learn , and ...
Page x
... present one based on chance , called Free- will . We must be prepared for , and tolerant of , some little diversity of opinion on this subject for some time to come , since even the great Lord Bacon said on this question of the earth's ...
... present one based on chance , called Free- will . We must be prepared for , and tolerant of , some little diversity of opinion on this subject for some time to come , since even the great Lord Bacon said on this question of the earth's ...
Page xi
... present time who have been obliged to disregard " the tales they have heard from their mothers , " and to abandon prevailing opinions , anxiously enquiring what is to take their place , and they are as desirous as the world has ever ...
... present time who have been obliged to disregard " the tales they have heard from their mothers , " and to abandon prevailing opinions , anxiously enquiring what is to take their place , and they are as desirous as the world has ever ...
Page xv
... present day belong more to feeling than to reason . It is only one who has no position and reputation to lose who dares venture upon this ground . Dr. Tyndall , in the Pre- face to his Volume of Essays just issued , says : " Most of the ...
... present day belong more to feeling than to reason . It is only one who has no position and reputation to lose who dares venture upon this ground . Dr. Tyndall , in the Pre- face to his Volume of Essays just issued , says : " Most of the ...
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