This especially holds good with injurious characters which tend to reappear through reversion, such as blackness in sheep; and with mankind some of the worst dispositions, which occasionally without any assignable cause make their appearance in families,... The Descent of man - Page 166by Charles Darwin - 1871Full view - About this book
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 lehte
...few in number, which are in any marked manner inferior, is by no means an unimportant element towards success. This especially holds good with injurious...removed by very many generations. This view seems indeed recognised in the common expression that such men are the black sheep of the family. With civilised... | |
| George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 lehte
...occasionally appear in a flock where nothing of the kind has been known for generations. In like manner with mankind ; some of the worst dispositions, which...removed by very many generations. This view seems indeed recognised in the common expression, that such men are the black sheep of the family. " Furthermore,... | |
| Physician and sanitarian, Martin Luther Holbrook - 1882 - 206 lehte
...few in number, which are in any marked manner inferior, is by no means an unimportant element towards success. This especially holds good with injurious...families, may perhaps be reversions to a savage state, i which we are not removed by very many genera5. This view seems indeed recognized in the cornexpression... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1890 - 724 lehte
...unimportant element towards success. Thia especially holds good with injurious characters which tend tc reappear through reversion, such as blackness in sheep;...removed by very many generations. This view seems indeed recognised in the common expression that such men are the black sheep of the family. With civilised... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 890 lehte
...few in number, which are in any marked manner inferior, is by no means an unimportant element towards success. This especially holds good with injurious...removed by very many generations. This view seems indeed recognised in the common expression that such men are the black sheep of the family. With civilised... | |
| Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - 1897 - 502 lehte
...lifting down a volume of Darwin's " Descent of Man " read from the chapter on Civilised Nations : — " ' With mankind some of the worst dispositions which...which we are not removed by very many generations.' " VII Two weeks later Patience received a letter from Hal which induced no surprise. Don't imagine... | |
| Havelock Ellis - 1903 - 516 lehte
...be due to atavism. Speaking of the appearance of blackness in sheep by reversion, he "remarks : ^ " With mankind some of the worst dispositions, which...removed by very many generations. This view seems indeed recognised in the common expression that such men are the black sheep of the family."2 Alienists have... | |
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