The Plurality of the Human RaceAnthropological Society, 1864 - 158 էջ |
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Էջ 118 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Էջ 151 - The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If rising on its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain.
Էջ 142 - The first men, say they, lived for some time in woods and caves, after the manner of boasts, uttering only confused and indistinct noises, till, associating for mutual assistance, they came by degrees to use articulate sounds mutually agreed upon, for the arbitrary signs or marks of those ideas in the mind of the speaker which he wanted to communicate to the hearer.
Էջ 69 - I understood their language ? I have much reason to doubt. That they have a moral law of some extent, ' written in the heart,' I could not doubt, as numerous traits of their conduct show; but beyond this I could satisfy myself of nothing; nor did these efforts and many more enable me to conjecture aught...
Էջ 36 - 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...
Էջ 77 - The problem of the common origin of languages has no necessary connection with the problem of the common origin of mankind. . . . .The science of language and the science of Ethnology have both suffered most severely from being mixed up together. The classification of races and languages, should be quite independent of each other.