 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 452 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is only... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1862 - 448 pages
...Revealed Religion." f " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | Essays - 1862 - 560 pages
...Revealed Eeligion." * " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection •will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos ; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | 1862 - 556 pages
...Revealed Religion." i " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos ; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts." * This is something like... | |
 | Frederic Bateman - 1870 - 266 pages
...fold of the brain or an angle of the skull ; it is the one great barrier between the brute and man ; it admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language is our Rubicon... | |
 | Sir Frederic BATEMAN - 1870 - 244 pages
...COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE APE AND OF MAN. 167 Further on he says, " Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull ; it is the one great barrier between the brute and man ; it admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1876 - 590 pages
...something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts." No scholar, so far as I know, has ever controverted any of these statements. But when Evolutionism... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1876 - 588 pages
..."Man speaks," I said, " and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes... | |
 | Sir Frederick Bateman - 1877 - 262 pages
...great barrier between the brute and man, and that no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of 112 WANT OF CONNECTION beasts. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to pass it." I must... | |
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Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. 
