 | 1870 - 406 lehte
...time. The first Adam of Science, according to its chief prophet, is " an ape-like creature," — "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 lehte
...of the work is thus broadly stated (ii. 389): ' We thus learn (query) that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, . if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | 1878 - 920 lehte
...Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Mr. Spencer literally follows David Hume, when he... | |
 | 1871 - 598 lehte
...same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether... | |
 | 1871 - 488 lehte
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | 1871 - 778 lehte
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 lehte
...same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 508 lehte
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | 1871 - 588 lehte
...animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix,... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 lehte
...as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe... | |
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And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was "a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits... 
