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" Moreover, looking at the question from the other side, we find in animals complex organs of sense, richly supplied with nerves, but the function of which we are as yet powerless to -explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound... "
Canada Lancet - Page 109
1889
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On the Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals: With Special ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1888 - 332 pages
...function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight ; and even within the...for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we cannot...
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The Detroit Journal Year-book, Volumes 1-3

1888 - 466 pages
...function of which we are as yet powerless lo explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight; and even within the boundaries...our own senses there may be endless sounds which we can not hear, and colors as different as red from green, of which we have no conception. These and...
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The Birth from Above

Charles Follen Lee - 1889 - 118 pages
...said that " there may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight," and that " even within the boundaries of our own senses there...as red from green, of which we have no conception." Hence he argues that " the familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place " to...
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The Birth from Above

Charles Follen Lee - 1889 - 116 pages
...said that " there may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight," an.d that "even within the boundaries of our o.wn senses there...as red from green, of which we have no conception." Hence he argues that " the familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place" to the...
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Days Out of Doors,

Charles Conrad Abbott - 1889 - 346 pages
...sight ; and even within the boundaries of our own senses, there may be endless sounds which we can not hear, and colors, as different as red from green,...for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we can not...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 902 pages
...function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight ; and even within the...our own senses there may be endless sounds which we can not hear, and colors, as different as red from green, of which we have no conception. These and...
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Days Out of Doors

Charles Conrad Abbott - 1889 - 348 pages
...function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight ; and even within the...our own senses, there may be endless sounds which we can not hear, and colors, as different as red from green, of which we have no conception. These and...
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Christian Thought, Volume 7

1890 - 492 pages
...Prof. Fowler endorses Sir John Lubbock's idea that there may be " fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight; and even within the boundaries...for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we cannot...
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The Pleasures of Life ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight ; and even within the...for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we cannot...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1890 - 894 pages
...even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be endless sounds which we can not hear, aud colors as different as red from green, of which we...for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may be full of music which we can not...
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