| 1870 - 406 pages
...our 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...in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life by the quickening breath of the Almighty, and... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...tolerance. The general theory of the work is thus broadly stated (ii. 389): ' We thus learn (query) that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, . if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed... | |
| 1878 - 920 pages
...Age of Science. Mr. Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Mr. Spencer literally follows David Hume, when he asserts that the illusion of the freedom of the will... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 pages
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
| 1871 - 598 pages
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
| 1871 - 636 pages
...bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 'World." He concludes that " man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor." And this genealogy... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 540 pages
...can approximately place them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst... | |
| 1871 - 588 pages
...that among the inferior animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix, or outward fold of the human ear, к a vestige... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 pages
...related, or as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe and study scientifically. This study, to say... | |
| 1871 - 488 pages
...the subject, but Geology emphatically denies the existence of such a creature, tt is easy to imagine "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of ihe Old World," but it is quite another thing to prove it, and in the entire absence of proof we cannot... | |
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