 And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was "a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits...  Discourses in America - Page 135by Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1883 - 660 pages
...faces of his audience — for the article consists of a lecture — when, more than once, he mentioned the ''hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits." Still, it is possible to conceive of a time when the division between literature and science shall... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...time. The first Adam of Science, according to its chief prophet, is " an ape-like creature," — "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1886 - 550 pages
...be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was ' a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits,' there will be found to arise an invincible desire to relate this proposition to the sense in us for... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 pages
...as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 pages
...same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether... | |
 | 1871 - 636 pages
...stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 'World." He concludes that " man is the co-descendant with... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 508 pages
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | 1871 - 778 pages
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | James McCosh - 1871 - 410 pages
...the proper muscles." Mr. Darwin can carry our genealogy still farther back : "Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | Pius Melia - 1872 - 124 pages
...Ruler of the Universe. 1 Now let us hear his system : ' We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the old world. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
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