 | 1870 - 406 lehte
...our time. The first Adam of Science, according to its chief prophet, is " an ape-like creature," — "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life by the quickening breath of the Almighty, and... | |
 | 1878 - 920 lehte
...the Age of Science. Mr. Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Mr. Spencer literally follows David Hume, when he asserts that the illusion of the freedom of the will... | |
 | 1871 - 636 lehte
...hi* bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 'World." He concludes that " man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor." And this genealogy... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 lehte
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
 | 1871 - 588 lehte
...acknowledge that among the inferior animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix, or outward fold of the human ear, к a vestige... | |
 | 1871 - 598 lehte
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 lehte
...reversions to which he is liable, we can partly recall in imagination the former condition of our early progenitors ; and can approximately place them in...series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadrupedTTurnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably aboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 lehte
...related, or as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe and study scientifically. This study, to say... | |
 | 1871 - 488 lehte
...the subject, but Geology emphatically denies the existence of such a creature, tt is easy to imagine "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of ihe Old World," but it is quite another thing to prove it, and in the entire absence of proof we cannot... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1871 - 642 lehte
...p d.) im Kaukasus. Darwin believes that „man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished withs a tail and pointed ears , probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." Wenn der Kriegsruf und die ersten Schasse ertönen, brauchen die Pferde, das Vieh, Schaafe und Ziegen... | |
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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. 
