The Anthropological Review, 2. köideTrübner and Company, 1864 |
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... scientific will - o ' - the - wisp . The writer who has put the idea of grammatical structure so clearly before the world by his system of symbols - Schleicher , of Jena - has no hesitation in giving his opinion point - blank : " There ...
... scientific will - o ' - the - wisp . The writer who has put the idea of grammatical structure so clearly before the world by his system of symbols - Schleicher , of Jena - has no hesitation in giving his opinion point - blank : " There ...
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... scientific ex- planation , must find a natural solution , whether one gets through with one original form for the thousandfold formation of languages , whence , in spite of their great number and variety of kind , they are to be derived ...
... scientific ex- planation , must find a natural solution , whether one gets through with one original form for the thousandfold formation of languages , whence , in spite of their great number and variety of kind , they are to be derived ...
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... scientific knowledge of what this process can and can- not do , its results will always be a barrier to the general classification of languages in their genealogical order . Our attention was lately recalled to this point by meeting ...
... scientific knowledge of what this process can and can- not do , its results will always be a barrier to the general classification of languages in their genealogical order . Our attention was lately recalled to this point by meeting ...
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... scientific argument into the exciting atmosphere of religious controversy has not produced desirable re- sults , but of course it may be different in Germany . We in England are hoping soon to see the third volume of Pro- fessor Pott's ...
... scientific argument into the exciting atmosphere of religious controversy has not produced desirable re- sults , but of course it may be different in Germany . We in England are hoping soon to see the third volume of Pro- fessor Pott's ...
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... scientific structure . We hope often to meet with him again in these investigations , and are per- suaded it always will be with substantial additions to our knowledge . J. B. D. 39 ON THE SCYTHO - CIMMERIAN ORIGIN OF THE LANGUE 38 ...
... scientific structure . We hope often to meet with him again in these investigations , and are per- suaded it always will be with substantial additions to our knowledge . J. B. D. 39 ON THE SCYTHO - CIMMERIAN ORIGIN OF THE LANGUE 38 ...
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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...
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...