The Anthropological Review, Volume 2; Volume 6Trübner and Company, 1868 |
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... skull ? If he did , then he ( Dr. Hunt ) must entirely differ from him ; but if he meant an original unity of all animal life , then he for one had no objection to that expression ; or if he meant to say the original unity of all ...
... skull ? If he did , then he ( Dr. Hunt ) must entirely differ from him ; but if he meant an original unity of all animal life , then he for one had no objection to that expression ; or if he meant to say the original unity of all ...
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... skull of this race is , compared with that of the Iranian , less oval , the eyebrows less arched , not meeting at the nose ; the eyelids are thicker ; the iris brown ; the nose short and thick , both at the root and the wings ; the ...
... skull of this race is , compared with that of the Iranian , less oval , the eyebrows less arched , not meeting at the nose ; the eyelids are thicker ; the iris brown ; the nose short and thick , both at the root and the wings ; the ...
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... skulls , for example , though ingenious and striking , are still as doubtful as when he put them forth ; Retzius's classification has been shown to be erroneous in many par- ticulars , for example , in the glaring instance of the ...
... skulls , for example , though ingenious and striking , are still as doubtful as when he put them forth ; Retzius's classification has been shown to be erroneous in many par- ticulars , for example , in the glaring instance of the ...
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... skull , a subject well known to be eminently the author's own ; an ethnographical sketch of the successive populations of Britain , and a somewhat compressed but valuable account of the distinctive physical and moral characteristics of ...
... skull , a subject well known to be eminently the author's own ; an ethnographical sketch of the successive populations of Britain , and a somewhat compressed but valuable account of the distinctive physical and moral characteristics of ...
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... SKULL has been recently discovered in California , at the depth of 130 feet in the pliocene , contemporary with the rhinosceros , the camel ( or a species allied to it ) and the fossil horse , in an antiquity far be- yond that of the ...
... SKULL has been recently discovered in California , at the depth of 130 feet in the pliocene , contemporary with the rhinosceros , the camel ( or a species allied to it ) and the fossil horse , in an antiquity far be- yond that of the ...
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Page xx - In her family, in her court, in her kingdom, she remained equally mistress: the force of the tender passions was great over her, but the force of her mind was still superior; and the combat which her victory visibly cost her, serves only to display the firmness of her resolution, and the loftiness of her ambitious sentiments. The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices...
Page 301 - Not only do the cerebral hemispheres overlap the olfactory lobes and cerebellum, but they extend in advance of the one, and further back than the other.
Page 193 - ... in a living state, then also ought this science to be able, by availing itself of the same comparative method, to collect the remains of human races long since passed away, and of the works which they...
Page 271 - Europeans is necessary to instruct them, but the approach of Europeans corrupts and repels them into savage life ; they refuse to change their habits as long as their solitudes are their own, and it is too late to change them when they are constrained to submit. . The Spaniards pursued the Indians with blood-hounds...
Page 136 - A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers ; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Page 3 - So far from this, the existence of any such record would, according to the very hypothesis itself, be impossible. Traditions are shortlived and untrustworthy. A " monument " which could prove the actual occurrence of a race capable of self-civilisation, I confess myself unable to imagine.
Page 4 - cast out an orphan of nature, ' naked and helpless into the savage forest, must have perished ' before he could have learned how to supply his most immediate ' and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to ' have started into being, one knows not how, in the full ' strength of his bodily powers, how long must it have been ' before he could have known the proper use of his limbs, or ' how to apply them to climb the tree !
Page 184 - Look at Wales, look at Caledonia ; it is ever the same. The race must be forced from the soil ; by fair means, if possible ; still they must leave.
Page 2 - Srdly, and lastly, supposing that the Mandans did emerge from the Savage state, how do we know that this may not have been through the aid of some strangers coming among them — like the Manco-capac of Peru — from some more civilized Country, perhaps long before the days of Columbus...
Page 383 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.