The Anthropological Review, 7. köideTrübner and Company, 1869 |
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Page 102
... woman is inferior in intellect to man . The cause evidently is that the composition and temper of her brain are differently disposed . In chapter 1 , he proves , by an example , that if a child have not the disposition which is ...
... woman is inferior in intellect to man . The cause evidently is that the composition and temper of her brain are differently disposed . In chapter 1 , he proves , by an example , that if a child have not the disposition which is ...
Page 124
... they would be taken in the snare , and the life of the child sacrificed . There is an old woman living near Thaba Bosigo who told me that she had , in the days of her childhood , been the bait of a lion - trap 124 ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW .
... they would be taken in the snare , and the life of the child sacrificed . There is an old woman living near Thaba Bosigo who told me that she had , in the days of her childhood , been the bait of a lion - trap 124 ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW .
Page 186
... woman's advent into this world upon authority . A modern sceptical philosopher , Dr. Whately , defines woman as ' a creature incapable of the exercise of reason , and that pokes the fire from the top ; ' but this is since the fall , for ...
... woman's advent into this world upon authority . A modern sceptical philosopher , Dr. Whately , defines woman as ' a creature incapable of the exercise of reason , and that pokes the fire from the top ; ' but this is since the fall , for ...
Page 249
... woman's eye for her neighbour's dress , or a man's generalisation of scientific facts . The definition of a warlike disposition must of necessity differ with the age which is under consideration , and the point of view from which it is ...
... woman's eye for her neighbour's dress , or a man's generalisation of scientific facts . The definition of a warlike disposition must of necessity differ with the age which is under consideration , and the point of view from which it is ...
Page 375
... woman , - and , finally , by the acknowledgment of human dignity . The higher the civilisation , the more valuable is human life . The great means towards attaining these objects , consist in the acquisition of our mental inheritances ...
... woman , - and , finally , by the acknowledgment of human dignity . The higher the civilisation , the more valuable is human life . The great means towards attaining these objects , consist in the acquisition of our mental inheritances ...
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Page ccxxiii - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
Page 139 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Page 216 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 217 - Tree and Serpent Worship ; Or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ, from the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati.
Page 304 - You shall well and truly try the issue between the parties, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence, so help you God ;" and the juror kisses the New Testament.
Page 395 - ... the corresponding thought or feeling might be inferred ; or, given the thought or feeling, the corresponding state of the brain might be inferred. But how inferred ? It is at bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association. You may reply, that many of the inferences of science are of this character ; the inference, for example, that an electric current of a given direction will deflect a magnetic needle in...
Page 4 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 395 - I hardly imagine there exists a profound scientific thinker, who has reflected upon the subject, unwilling to admit the extreme probability of the hypothesis, that for every fact of consciousness, whether in the domain of sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain...
Page 317 - Their stature and their features, as well as their disposition and habits, are almost the same as those of the Papuans ; their hair is semi-Papuan — neither straight, smooth, and glossy, like all true Malays', nor so frizzly and woolly as the perfect Papuan type, but always crisp, waved, and rough, such as often occurs among the true Papuans, but never among the Malays.
Page 177 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.