Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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... origin , their gradual progress , and definite settlement . The his- tory of a science is , as it were , its biography , and as we buy experience cheapest in studying the lives of others , we may , perhaps , guard our young science from ...
... origin , their gradual progress , and definite settlement . The his- tory of a science is , as it were , its biography , and as we buy experience cheapest in studying the lives of others , we may , perhaps , guard our young science from ...
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... origin , the progress , the causes of failure and success have been the same for almost every branch of human knowledge . There are three marked periods or stages in the history of every one ⚫ of them , which we may call the Empirical ...
... origin , the progress , the causes of failure and success have been the same for almost every branch of human knowledge . There are three marked periods or stages in the history of every one ⚫ of them , which we may call the Empirical ...
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... origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which ...
... origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which ...
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... always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities . " - Owen , as quoted by Darwin Origin of Species , p . 414 . centric point of view , laws were discovered determin- ing 26 CLASSIFICATORY STAGE .
... always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities . " - Owen , as quoted by Darwin Origin of Species , p . 414 . centric point of view , laws were discovered determin- ing 26 CLASSIFICATORY STAGE .
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... origin are two great divisions of human knowledge , which , according to their subject - matter , are called physical and historical . Physical science deals with the works of God , historical science with the works of man . Now if we ...
... origin are two great divisions of human knowledge , which , according to their subject - matter , are called physical and historical . Physical science deals with the works of God , historical science with the works of man . Now if we ...
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