The Anthropological Review, Volume 1Trübner and Company, 1863 |
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... seen that we really mean work and in the meantime let all strive to gain the number of members by which we can work the society with effect and with benefit to the cause of truth and science . It is true that some who were naturally ...
... seen that we really mean work and in the meantime let all strive to gain the number of members by which we can work the society with effect and with benefit to the cause of truth and science . It is true that some who were naturally ...
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... seen coming down to the river to drink , and the boy was caught . He had at first to be tied to prevent his running into holes or dens . He tried to run away from grown people , but if children came near him he rushed at them and tried ...
... seen coming down to the river to drink , and the boy was caught . He had at first to be tied to prevent his running into holes or dens . He tried to run away from grown people , but if children came near him he rushed at them and tried ...
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... seen to carry him off by the loins , and the marks of teeth were still visible on them . The boy was alive at the time of Sir W. Sleeman's visit , and had been tamed to about the same degree as the one last mentioned . His body smelt ...
... seen to carry him off by the loins , and the marks of teeth were still visible on them . The boy was alive at the time of Sir W. Sleeman's visit , and had been tamed to about the same degree as the one last mentioned . His body smelt ...
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... straw ; the two boys seen to leap from crag to crag , like * Schediasma de hominum inter feras educatorum statu naturali solitario . Hanover , 1730 . goats , in the Pyrenees , in 1719 ; Lord 28 WILD MEN AND BEAST CHILDREN .
... straw ; the two boys seen to leap from crag to crag , like * Schediasma de hominum inter feras educatorum statu naturali solitario . Hanover , 1730 . goats , in the Pyrenees , in 1719 ; Lord 28 WILD MEN AND BEAST CHILDREN .
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... seen them . One girl declared that her father had charged her on his death - bed to carry food to his Sudara Oran , as these man - crocodiles are called . It used to come and eat out of her hand when she called it ; it had a spotted ...
... seen them . One girl declared that her father had charged her on his death - bed to carry food to his Sudara Oran , as these man - crocodiles are called . It used to come and eat out of her hand when she called it ; it had a spotted ...
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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...