A Manual of Anthropology, Or, Science of Man: Based on Modern ResearchLongmans, Greens, Reader & Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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Page vii
... present day , however , would seem to be much more taken up with such speculations , and as to whether our forefathers were covered with hair , had pointed ears and a tail , or whether we began with civilisation , or have ended with it ...
... present day , however , would seem to be much more taken up with such speculations , and as to whether our forefathers were covered with hair , had pointed ears and a tail , or whether we began with civilisation , or have ended with it ...
Page x
... present one based on chance , called Free- will . We must be prepared for , and tolerant of , some little diversity of opinion on this subject for some time to come , since even the great Lord Bacon said on this question of the earth's ...
... present one based on chance , called Free- will . We must be prepared for , and tolerant of , some little diversity of opinion on this subject for some time to come , since even the great Lord Bacon said on this question of the earth's ...
Page xi
... present time who have been obliged to disregard " the tales they have heard from their mothers , " and to abandon prevailing opinions , anxiously enquiring what is to take their place , and they are as desirous as the world has ever ...
... present time who have been obliged to disregard " the tales they have heard from their mothers , " and to abandon prevailing opinions , anxiously enquiring what is to take their place , and they are as desirous as the world has ever ...
Page xii
... present work is another brief and humble attempt , by making use of the light of modern discovery and by putting together and systematising what have hitherto been detached and isolated truths , to answer this question of our Whence ...
... present work is another brief and humble attempt , by making use of the light of modern discovery and by putting together and systematising what have hitherto been detached and isolated truths , to answer this question of our Whence ...
Page xv
... present day belong more to feeling than to reason . It is only one who has no position and reputation to lose who dares venture upon this ground . Dr. Tyndall , in the Pre- face to his Volume of Essays just issued , says : " Most of the ...
... present day belong more to feeling than to reason . It is only one who has no position and reputation to lose who dares venture upon this ground . Dr. Tyndall , in the Pre- face to his Volume of Essays just issued , says : " Most of the ...
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Page 253 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Page 247 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 201 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 237 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 199 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 62 - Is it not extraordinary ? — when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak, or be silent ; I am full of suspicions, and therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.
Page 201 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 341 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Page 248 - Strip it naked, and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself — emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena — were once latent in a fiery cloud.
Page 338 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last?