 | Liverpool Geological Association - 1883 - 182 pages
...says, is the great barrier between the brute and man. " No power of Natural Selection can ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts." All these points, as I said, I have been obliged simply to notice. But, lastly, nothing that has been... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. language the Barrier between... | |
 | Sir Edward Maunde Thompson - 1893 - 386 pages
...A book which tells more than the outside of things, for ' language is pomething more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull.' It is, in fact, the heart of all history. Professor Roemer has grasped this truth, and holds it firmly.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 470 pages
...something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill...birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is the only outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge our opponent to produce... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 462 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 454 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words oat of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It...cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words oat of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 530 pages
...angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is the only outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge our opponent to produce... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...extract : " Man speaks, but no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes... | |
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Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. 
