Chapters on Man: With the Outlines of a Science of Comparative PsychologyTrübner and Company, 1868 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 56
Page 102
... continent from Greenland to Cape Horn , Du Ponceau asserts that they are in general " rich in words and in ... African dialects , and even of the language of the Aus- tralian aborigines , who , although in physical structure further ...
... continent from Greenland to Cape Horn , Du Ponceau asserts that they are in general " rich in words and in ... African dialects , and even of the language of the Aus- tralian aborigines , who , although in physical structure further ...
Page 127
... continent . The fossils discovered in the Australian bone - caves , which answer to those of the European post ... Africa , and Asia , as far as CIVILIZATION AND RACE . 127.
... continent . The fossils discovered in the Australian bone - caves , which answer to those of the European post ... Africa , and Asia , as far as CIVILIZATION AND RACE . 127.
Page 130
... African continent . Most of the above - mentioned genera are still found there , while the giraffe and hippopotamus , whose remains have been found in some of the latest of the sub - Himalayan deposits , are now extinct everywhere but ...
... African continent . Most of the above - mentioned genera are still found there , while the giraffe and hippopotamus , whose remains have been found in some of the latest of the sub - Himalayan deposits , are now extinct everywhere but ...
Page 135
... continent of Australia was then submerged , leaving a clear sea to the ... continent cannot have been submerged since the Secondary period . Probably Australia ... Africa ; but , taken as a whole , it is without doubt the oldest of the ...
... continent of Australia was then submerged , leaving a clear sea to the ... continent cannot have been submerged since the Secondary period . Probably Australia ... Africa ; but , taken as a whole , it is without doubt the oldest of the ...
Page 137
... African continent cannot have undergone any serious change of climate for a vast period of time is evident from the agreement of its present fauna with that of the later tertiaries of Europe , an agreement which authorizes us to place ...
... African continent cannot have undergone any serious change of climate for a vast period of time is evident from the agreement of its present fauna with that of the later tertiaries of Europe , an agreement which authorizes us to place ...
Other editions - View all
Chapters on Man with the Outlines of a Science of Comparative Psychology Charles Staniland Wake No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
aboriginal according action affinity African continent America analogy appears Archipelago Asia Asianesian asserts Australian Australian aborigines Bechuanas blastema Bohn brute Cafres character civilization connection creatures curious customs D'Eichthal dialects distinct emotion Eocene European evident existence explain external fact faculty fauna flora formation former fossil Foulahs geological Hebrew Hottentots human Ibid ideas Indian Archipelago Indian Ocean inhabitants instinct intellectual intuitive islands language latter Logan lower animals Madagascar Madecasses man's Mandingo marsupials Max Müller mental activity mind Miocene mulattoes nature negro objects of thought onomatopoiea Oolitic operation opinion origin Papuas peculiar perception phase phenomena physical organism Polynesian possession preceding present primitive principle Professor Max Müller qualities race races of mankind reason referred relation resemblance result samanu says Semitic sensation simple Sir Charles Lyell Société Ethnologique Paris soul essence South Africa southern hemisphere species spirit structure subjective superior supposed Tertiary period tion tribes truth vegetable writer
Popular passages
Page 314 - Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer ; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing.
Page 34 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general signs.
Page 296 - There cannot be the slightest doubt in the world that the argument which applies to the improvement of the horse from an earlier stock, or of ape from ape, applies to the improvement of man from some simpler and lower stock than man.
Page 297 - If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years ; there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
Page 314 - Over and over again it has been shown in various ways, that the deepest truths we can reach, are simply statements of the widest uniformities in our experience of the relations of Matter, Motion, and Force; and that Matter, Motion, and Force are ,but symbols of the Unknown Reality.
Page 308 - If, then, this organic polarity can be possessed neither by the chemical units nor the morphological units, we must conceive it as possessed by certain intermediate units, which we may term physiological.
Page 118 - Germans. They knew the arts of ploughing, of making roads, of building ships, of weaving and sewing, of erecting houses ; they had counted at least as far as one hundred. They had domesticated the most important animals, the cow, the horse, the sheep, the dog ; they were acquainted with the most useful metals, and armed with iron hatchets, whether for peaceful or warlike purposes.
Page 79 - ... particular. In the animal it is always an individual knowledge, that is, a knowledge of individual facts; while in man it is often a knowledge which has relation to general truths or principles. From the facts stated in the last few paragraphs, it is clear that Carpenter is not correct in saying that "the mind of man differs from that of the lower animals rather as to the degree in which the reasoning faculties are developed in him, than by any thing peculiar in their kind.
Page 39 - As in the case of Onomatopoieia, it cannot be denied that with interjections, too, some kind of language might have been formed; but not a language like that which we find in numerous varieties among all the races of men. One short interjection may be more powerful, more to the point, more eloquent than a long speech. In fact, interjections, together with gestures, the movements of the muscles of the mouth, and the eye, would be quite sufficient for all purposes which language answers with the majority...
Page 277 - ... struck with the comparatively modern date to which some of the greatest revolutions in the physical geography of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa must be referred. All the mountain chains, such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have had no existence till after the Middle Eocene period.