| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 lehte
...that quantity of brain is one of the most essential of the elements which determine mental powers. Yet the mental requirements of savages, and the faculties...from that hairy covering which is so universal among the mammalia, cannot be explained on the theory of natural selection. The habits of savages show that... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 64 lehte
...refined emotion, and the power of abstract reasoning and ideal conception, are useless to them,*are rarely if ever manifested, and have no important relations...soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free from the hairy covering which is so universal among other mammalia, cannot be explained on the theory of... | |
| John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 lehte
...savages, and the faculties actually exercised by them, are very little above those of animals.' — ' They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher.' Again, ' the soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free from that hairy covering, which is so... | |
| William Fraser - 1873 - 406 lehte
...them that it could not have been obtained in the struggle for existence. " They possess," he says, " a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." Mr. Wallace also specifies other facts in the natural history of man, for which Mr. Darwin's theory... | |
| William Fraser - 1875 - 452 lehte
...them, that it could not have been obtained in the struggle for existence. "They possess," he says, "a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural selection...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." Mr. Wallace also specifies other facts in the natural history of man, for which Mr. Darwin's theory... | |
| 1878 - 814 lehte
...mere Litest outgrowth of a development from lower forms of animal life, Mr. Wallace points out that " natural selection could only have endowed savage man...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." Yet neither Mr. Wallace, nor Professor Huxley when controverting this argument, withholds a due recognition... | |
| 1881 - 334 lehte
...mental organ beyond their needs. Natural selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." 1 The testimony of missionaries, as the result of intercourse with uncultivated tribes in the most... | |
| Benedict Permanne - 1883 - 98 lehte
...developed so far beyond the needs of its possession? Natural Selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the average membres of our learned societies." $n erbärmlidjer,... | |
| Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 lehte
...mental organ beyond their needs. Natural selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." 1 The testimony of missionaries, as the result of intercourse with uncultivated tribes in the most... | |
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