The Anthropological Review, Volume 1Trübner and Company, 1863 |
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... caused more by my interest in the objects of the Society than by any special qualification for such a task . I shall therefore offer neither excuse nor apology for the matter I bring before you : but will simply beg all who hear me , to ...
... caused more by my interest in the objects of the Society than by any special qualification for such a task . I shall therefore offer neither excuse nor apology for the matter I bring before you : but will simply beg all who hear me , to ...
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... causes which deteriorate or destroy the races of Europe , when removed to some other regions ? How many thousands of our soldiers ' lives would be saved annually if we studied tem- perament in the selection of men suitable for hot and ...
... causes which deteriorate or destroy the races of Europe , when removed to some other regions ? How many thousands of our soldiers ' lives would be saved annually if we studied tem- perament in the selection of men suitable for hot and ...
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... cause of science when we absurdly give our support to theories that no longer can be reconciled with established facts . It will be a great mis- fortune to science , should students of nature ever become thus fondly wedded to their ...
... cause of science when we absurdly give our support to theories that no longer can be reconciled with established facts . It will be a great mis- fortune to science , should students of nature ever become thus fondly wedded to their ...
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... cause of the comparative uselessness of the accounts of tra- vellers is the want of honesty in telling what they really saw . Some fear shocking public opinion , while others indulge in exaggerations for the sake of the excitement which ...
... cause of the comparative uselessness of the accounts of tra- vellers is the want of honesty in telling what they really saw . Some fear shocking public opinion , while others indulge in exaggerations for the sake of the excitement which ...
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... cause of science . But there are other duties which will demand our more immediate attention ; and I will briefly touch on some of these , as it may serve to illustrate how we purpose to carry out the work we have under- taken . Much of ...
... cause of science . But there are other duties which will demand our more immediate attention ; and I will briefly touch on some of these , as it may serve to illustrate how we purpose to carry out the work we have under- taken . Much of ...
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Page 43 - And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak ; — such was the process \— And of the cannibals that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 107 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Page 78 - Frere's words are well-known and memorable: "....if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves... must I think be considered in that light, from the situation in which they were found They are, I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals.
Page 112 - I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject to the production of proof that physiological species may be produced by selective breeding...
Page 113 - Not being able to appreciate or conceive of the distinction between the psychical phenomena of a Chimpanzee and of a Boschisman or of an Aztec, with arrested brain growth, as being of a nature so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the significance of that all-pervading similitude of structure — every tooth, every bone, strictly homologous — which makes the determination of the difference between Homo and...
Page 113 - I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of...
Page 105 - ... (p. 79 ) Since a more recent examination of casts and photographs from it, the anatomist just mentioned allows, with Messrs. Schafthausen and Busk, that this skull is the most brutal of all known human skulls, resembling those of the apes, not only in the prodigious development of the superciliary prominences and the forward extension of the orbits, but still more in the depressed form of the brain-case, in the straightness of the squamosal suture, and in the complete retreat of the occiput forward...
Page 171 - The human skeletons of the Belgian caverns of times coeval with the mammoth and other extinct mammalia, do not betray any signs of a marked departure in their structure, whether of skull or limb, from the modern standard of certain living races of the human family.
Page 78 - The manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of their manufacture and not of their accidental desposit ; and the numbers of them were so great that the man who carried on the brick-work told me that, before he was aware of their being objects of curiosity, he had emptied baskets full of them into the ruts of the adjoining road.
Page 132 - If I was right in calculating that the present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth,* it would follow, if the claims of the Natchez man to have coexisted with the mastodon are admitted, that North America was peopled more than a thousand centuries ago by the human race. But even were that true, we could not presume, reasoning from ascertained geological data, that the Natchez bone was anterior in data to the antique flint...