The Anthropological Review, Volume 1Trübner and Company, 1863 |
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... tion , we want to know what is the truth . The accomplished and zealous President of the Ethnological Society , in one of his recent papers , writes , " that mankind consists of many originally created species , and that the hypothesis ...
... tion , we want to know what is the truth . The accomplished and zealous President of the Ethnological Society , in one of his recent papers , writes , " that mankind consists of many originally created species , and that the hypothesis ...
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... tion . But when Blumenbach , the naturalist , came to examine the facts of the case , he proved to demonstration that Peter was nothing but a wretched mal - formed idiot boy , who could hardly have strayed from home many days before ...
... tion . But when Blumenbach , the naturalist , came to examine the facts of the case , he proved to demonstration that Peter was nothing but a wretched mal - formed idiot boy , who could hardly have strayed from home many days before ...
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... tion he gives comes to this , that the boy was a half brutal idiot , who ran on all - fours to seize the bread which was given him . Another account of this case , apparently an independent one , is quoted by Koenig , * from Hartknoch ...
... tion he gives comes to this , that the boy was a half brutal idiot , who ran on all - fours to seize the bread which was given him . Another account of this case , apparently an independent one , is quoted by Koenig , * from Hartknoch ...
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... tion of the myth of Romulus and Remus , are evidently mere commen- tator's work . A curious story in the Katha - sarit - sagara , or Ocean of the Rivers of Story , a collection of Sanscrit wonder - tales dating from the twelfth century ...
... tion of the myth of Romulus and Remus , are evidently mere commen- tator's work . A curious story in the Katha - sarit - sagara , or Ocean of the Rivers of Story , a collection of Sanscrit wonder - tales dating from the twelfth century ...
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... tion must deduce general principles by reasoning downwards from the civilized European to the savage , and then descend to still lower possible levels of human existence , with such assistance as he can gain from the study of the ...
... tion must deduce general principles by reasoning downwards from the civilized European to the savage , and then descend to still lower possible levels of human existence , with such assistance as he can gain from the study of the ...
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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...