Evidence as to Man's Place in NatureD. Appleton & Company, 1873 - 184 Seiten |
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Seite 131 - Nay more, thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence Man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler Future.
Seite 181 - a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Seite 83 - So that it is only quite in the later stages of development that the young human being presents marked differences from the young ape, while the latter departs as much from the dog in its development as the man does. Startling as this last assertion may appear to be, it is demonstrably true...
Seite 132 - ... the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby in the secular period of his existence he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals ; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.
Seite 71 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Seite 13 - They cannot speake, and have no understanding more than a beast. .The people of the countrie, when they travaile in the woods make fires where they sleepe in the night; and in the morning, when they are gone, the Pongoes will come and sit about the fire till it goeth out; for they have no understanding to lay the wood together.