 ... success of competing nations. A few centuries ago Europe feared the inroads of Eastern barbarians; now any such fear would be ridiculous. It is a more curious fact, as Mr. Bagehot has remarked, that savages did not formerly waste away before the classical...  Scientific Papers and Addresses - Page 873by George Rolleston - 1884Full view - About this book
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 886 lehte
...did not ! irmerly waste away before the classical nations, as they do now before the modern civilized nations ; had they done so the old moralists would...they be coupled with certain other qualities. And I \visli to remark upon this statement, first, that it is exceedingly unsafe to argue from the silence... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 908 lehte
...did not formerly waste away before the classical nations, as they do now before the modern civilized nations ; had they done so the old moralists would...writer of that period over the perishing barbarians." Ün reading this for the first, and indeed for a second time, I was much impressed with its beauty... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 724 lehte
...remarked, that savages did not formerly waste away before the classical nations, as they now do before modern civilised nations; had they done so, the old...writer of that period over the perishing barbarians. 86 The most potent of all the causes of extinction, appears in many cases to be lessened fertility... | |
 | John Philip Young - 1900 - 600 lehte
...before the classical nations as they now do before modern civilized nations. Had they done so," he says, "the old moralists would have mused over the event,...of that period over the perishing barbarians."-|- This observation emphasizes the fact we are endeavoring to establish, that all peoples are capable... | |
 | 1905 - 462 lehte
...also Qerland (ibid., 8. 8). Poeppig speaks of the "breath of civilization as poisonous to savages. " the old moralists would have mused over the event;...writer of that period over the perishing barbarians." The most potent of all the causes of extinction appears in many cases to be lessened fertility and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2004 - 764 lehte
...savages did not formerly waste away before the classical nations, as they now do before modern civilized nations; had they done so, the old moralists would...writer of that period over the perishing barbarians. 36 The most potent of all the causes of extinction appears in many cases to be lessened fertility and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2004 - 870 lehte
...civilisation as poisonous to savages'. 35. Sproat, 'Scenes and Studies of Savage Life', 1868, p. 184. had they done so, the old moralists would have mused...lament in any writer of that period over the perishing barbarians.'6 The most potent of all the causes of extinction, appears in many cases to be lessened... | |
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