The Anthropological Review, 2. köideTrübner and Company, 1864 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page 4
... living in subterraneous cabins , they always appeared to me to owe that peculiarity to a partial leucosis . Oceania resembles in this respect America , presenting the same colours , and probably less exceptions . It is different in Asia ...
... living in subterraneous cabins , they always appeared to me to owe that peculiarity to a partial leucosis . Oceania resembles in this respect America , presenting the same colours , and probably less exceptions . It is different in Asia ...
Page 15
... living subjects of the same continent . a . M. M , a native of the Peruvian Andes , aged sixty - three , according to his own account a pure Indian . He is of lank stature ; cranium brachycephalous and square , as usual in the Aymara ...
... living subjects of the same continent . a . M. M , a native of the Peruvian Andes , aged sixty - three , according to his own account a pure Indian . He is of lank stature ; cranium brachycephalous and square , as usual in the Aymara ...
Page 19
... living persons by Abbé Domenech . I have subjected all these samples of hair to a double examination ; first , to ascertain the variations of the hair in a nation comparatively little mixed , and composed , as history teaches , to a ...
... living persons by Abbé Domenech . I have subjected all these samples of hair to a double examination ; first , to ascertain the variations of the hair in a nation comparatively little mixed , and composed , as history teaches , to a ...
Page 25
... living to accumulate a working scientific knowledge of numbers of different families of language , and who ought to be able to catch the loose threads meeting in the distant unity , if it were possible with our present knowledge . They ...
... living to accumulate a working scientific knowledge of numbers of different families of language , and who ought to be able to catch the loose threads meeting in the distant unity , if it were possible with our present knowledge . They ...
Page 28
... living in contact with savage tribes , and being able to carry their observa- tions over a series of years , and it is clear that till we have more complete and scientific knowledge of what this process can and can- not do , its results ...
... living in contact with savage tribes , and being able to carry their observa- tions over a series of years , and it is clear that till we have more complete and scientific knowledge of what this process can and can- not do , its results ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aborigines admit Africa America amongst ancient animals Anthropological Anthropological Society antiquity appears archæology argument asserted Australian believe Bendyshe bones Boudin brachycephalic brain Broca CARTER BLAKE cause Celt character chimpanzee civilisation climate colour conclusion consanguineous considered crania cranium disease distinct doubt ethnology Europe European evidence existence extinction facts favour frontal gorilla hair human Hunt increase Indian individual inferior inhabitants instance intellectual islands JAMES HUNT labour language laws mankind marriages Max Müller means microcephalic moral mulattoes nations native natural selection Neanderthal Neanderthal skull Negro objects observed opinion origin paper Paris Paul Broca peculiar period polygenists population present President probably produced Professor prove question races REDDIE regard remarks respect savage scientific Sir Charles Lyell skull slavery slaves species specimens superior supposed syphilis Tharros theory tion transmutation tribes Wallace whilst word
Popular passages
Page cxviii - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page clxviii - natural selection' himself, but he actually is able to take away some of that power from nature which, before his appearance, she universally exercised. We can anticipate the time when the earth will produce only cultivated plants and domestic animals; when man's selection shall have supplanted 'natural selection...
Page 257 - Actions, sensations, and states of feeling, occurring together or in close succession, tend to grow together or cohere in such a way that when any one of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up in idea.
Page clxviii - ... to capture or overcome both. Though less capable than most other animals of living on the herbs and the fruits that unaided nature supplies, this wonderful faculty taught him to govern and direct nature to his own benefit, and make her produce food for him when and where he pleased.
Page cxviii - But if Man be separated by no greater structural barrier from the brutes than they are from one another — then it seems to follow that if any process of physical causation can be discovered by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is amply sufficient to account for the origin of Man.
Page 315 - And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings...
Page 331 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Page cc - I think, I may be positive in, — that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
Page cc - Nouvelle difficulté pire encore que la précédente : car si les hommes ont eu besoin de la parole pour apprendre à . penser, ils ont eu bien plus besoin encore de savoir penser pour trouver l'art de la parole...
Page c - ... increased nearly to the utmost limits of the food, all the preventive and the positive checks will naturally operate with increased force. Vicious habits with respect to the sex will be more general, the exposing of children more frequent, and both the probability and fatality of wars and epidemics...