Hints and Facts on the Origin of Man and of His Intellectual FacultiesLongman, Green and Company, 1872 - 103 strán (strany) |
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Strana 12 - The Quadrumana and all the higher mammals are probably derived from an ancient marsupial animal, and this through a long line of diversified forms, either from some reptile-like or some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like animal.
Strana 12 - 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...
Strana 12 - A great stride in the development of the intellect will have followed, as soon as, through a previous considerable advance, the half-art and halfinstinct of language came into use; for the continued use of language will have reacted on the brain, and produced an inherited effect; and this again will have reacted on the improvement of language.
Strana 96 - Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Strana 80 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Strana 70 - Nevertheless the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
Strana 97 - Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecum.
Strana 13 - I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view : firstly, to show that species had not been separately created ; and, secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding conditions.
Strana 77 - Therefore the death of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
Strana 12 - But every one who admits the general principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals, which are the same in kind with those of mankind, though so different in degree, are capable of advancement.