We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world. A Century of Revolution - Seite 106von William Samuel Lilly - 1889 - 235 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1870 - 406 Seiten
...our time. The first Adam of Science, according to its chief prophet, is " an ape-like creature," — "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life by the quickening breath of the Almighty, and... | |
| 1878 - 920 Seiten
...the Age of Science. Mr. Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Mr. Spencer literally follows David Hume, when he asserts that the illusion of the freedom of the will... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 Seiten
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
| 1871 - 598 Seiten
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
| 1871 - 636 Seiten
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| 1871 - 588 Seiten
...acknowledge that among the inferior animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix, or outward fold of the human ear, к a vestige... | |
| 1871 - 636 Seiten
...hi* bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 'World." He concludes that " man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor." And this genealogy... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...that man is descended from a hairy quadrupedTTurnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably aboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World....examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as would the common and still more ancient progenitor of the Old and... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 Seiten
...related, or as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe and study scientifically. This study, to say... | |
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