The Anthropological Review, 2. köideTrübner and Company, 1864 |
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... probably never have seen the light . I sincerely regret that , for certain races which inhabited or still inhabit North America and High Asia , I had no materials at hand . I would , however , fain believe that the varied forms of human ...
... probably never have seen the light . I sincerely regret that , for certain races which inhabited or still inhabit North America and High Asia , I had no materials at hand . I would , however , fain believe that the varied forms of human ...
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... probably pure origin , the following three made on 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 ...
... probably pure origin , the following three made on 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 ...
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... probably long will be , in an incomplete and transitionary state , especially as to first principles , and trains of reasoning , which students read for the sake of the positive knowledge to be got out of them , have often not the force ...
... probably long will be , in an incomplete and transitionary state , especially as to first principles , and trains of reasoning , which students read for the sake of the positive knowledge to be got out of them , have often not the force ...
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... probably , the immediate application of a little spirit varnish would have pre- served these essential portions of the face . The other two of these cranial relics are deposited in the Museum of the Royal University of Cagliari , in ...
... probably , the immediate application of a little spirit varnish would have pre- served these essential portions of the face . The other two of these cranial relics are deposited in the Museum of the Royal University of Cagliari , in ...
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... probably be very difficult to decide this point craniologically , from a want of sufficient materials even , were there not other causes . The writer , from an examination of about thirty skulls of Guanches from the sepulchral caves of ...
... probably be very difficult to decide this point craniologically , from a want of sufficient materials even , were there not other causes . The writer , from an examination of about thirty skulls of Guanches from the sepulchral caves of ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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