The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2. köideP.F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 868 pages |
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... colored pencil is super easy if you use the right colors and have drawn a good sketch. Unlike the graphite pencils, colored pencils cannot be easily erased, so we have to draw carefully, particularly the darker areas. Always draw parts ...
... colored pencil is super easy if you use the right colors and have drawn a good sketch. Unlike the graphite pencils, colored pencils cannot be easily erased, so we have to draw carefully, particularly the darker areas. Always draw parts ...
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... COLORED PENCILS There are two main types of colored pencils: wax and oil. Wax and oil are the agents that bind the pigment together to form a colored pencil. Wax colored pencils are generally more convenient to find and also less ...
... COLORED PENCILS There are two main types of colored pencils: wax and oil. Wax and oil are the agents that bind the pigment together to form a colored pencil. Wax colored pencils are generally more convenient to find and also less ...
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... colored people , but be- cause they are , as a class , persecuted and in distress at the present moment . It is not necessary for our present purposes to inquire who the men are who have persecuted , robbed and murdered them . We know ...
... colored people , but be- cause they are , as a class , persecuted and in distress at the present moment . It is not necessary for our present purposes to inquire who the men are who have persecuted , robbed and murdered them . We know ...
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... colored man standing just a little ways from where I had my shine box set up . And he was just a shoutin ' , " Place ya bets . Place ya bets . Boy can play the coronet while jiggin ' . With every note and every beat as clear as if each ...
... colored man standing just a little ways from where I had my shine box set up . And he was just a shoutin ' , " Place ya bets . Place ya bets . Boy can play the coronet while jiggin ' . With every note and every beat as clear as if each ...
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... colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has ...
... colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has ...
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Page 777 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Page 795 - Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
Page 797 - I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs - as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practises infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Page 744 - Ask a northern Indian, says a traveller who has lately visited them, ask a northern Indian, What is beauty * and he will answer, a broad flat face, small eyes, high cheek-bones, three or four broad black lines across each cheek, a low forehead, a large broad chin, a clumsy hook nose, &c.
Page 788 - ... rendered more tender and widely diffused through the effects of habit, example, instruction, and reflection. It is not improbable that after long practice virtuous tendencies may be inherited.
Page 791 - The sexual struggle is of two kinds ; in the one it is between the individuals of the same sex, generally the male sex, in order to drive away or kill their rivals, the females remaining passive; whilst in the other, the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex, in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex, generally the females, which no longer remain passive, but select the more agreeable partners.
Page 784 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly or not at all developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of the existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Page 797 - We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system — with all these exalted powers — Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Page 785 - ... may be attributed in chief part to the early use of some simple form of language, — that wonderful engine which affixes signs to all sorts of objects and qualities, and excites trains of thought which would never arise from the mere impression of the senses, or if they did arise could not be followed out.
Page 796 - The main conclusion arrived at in this work, that man is descended from some lowly organized form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many.