A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern ResearchLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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... definite parts of the brain and certain equally definite mental functions . He devoted his life to this study of Cerebral Physiology : others have devoted their lives to the veri- fication of his most important discoveries , so that the ...
... definite parts of the brain and certain equally definite mental functions . He devoted his life to this study of Cerebral Physiology : others have devoted their lives to the veri- fication of his most important discoveries , so that the ...
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... definite as to time . Sir Charles Lyell is of opinion that the Engis Skull found in a cave in the valley of the Meuse is of the same age as the Mammoth and the Woolly Rhinoceros . The Neanderthal Skull is also said to belong to the same ...
... definite as to time . Sir Charles Lyell is of opinion that the Engis Skull found in a cave in the valley of the Meuse is of the same age as the Mammoth and the Woolly Rhinoceros . The Neanderthal Skull is also said to belong to the same ...
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... definite limits , and work towards a given object ; and all vital actions have for their final purpose the elimination of nervous force , upon which mental force depends . The conditions of life , upon which the powers of mind depend ...
... definite limits , and work towards a given object ; and all vital actions have for their final purpose the elimination of nervous force , upon which mental force depends . The conditions of life , upon which the powers of mind depend ...
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... definite quantity ; it is all there is to do the work of the body , and if it is used up otherwise , it cannot be used in thinking and feeling . Some food may be very nutritious , but if it requires a great power of digestion , we are ...
... definite quantity ; it is all there is to do the work of the body , and if it is used up otherwise , it cannot be used in thinking and feeling . Some food may be very nutritious , but if it requires a great power of digestion , we are ...
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... definite purpose are not easily disunited . If , then , the different races of mankind had a separate origin , and the forces of which they are composed were brought together and associated by a different environment , " the structure ...
... definite purpose are not easily disunited . If , then , the different races of mankind had a separate origin , and the forces of which they are composed were brought together and associated by a different environment , " the structure ...
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Page 239 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Page 233 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 223 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Page 60 - Is it not extraordinary ? — when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak, or be silent ; I am full of suspicions, and therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.
Page 185 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 201 - Besides these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
Page 245 - Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there. In truth have never passed away: Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they. For love, and beauty, and delight, There is no death nor change; their might Exceeds our organs, which endure No light, being themselves obscure.
Page 325 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Page 209 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 185 - Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith.