...come to propositions so interesting as Mr. Darwin's famous proposition l that " our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits." Or we come to propositions of such reach and magnitude as those . which Professor Huxley delivers,...

...that, and at last we come to propositions so interesting as the proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.' Or we come to propositions of such reach and importance as those which Professor Huxley brings us,...

...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...

...Age, as Gillian Beer has shown, was disbarred by Darwinian theory. Darwin locates our ancestor in that 'hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits',30 so unappealing, as Matthew Arnold put it - half-smiling, we hope - to the sense in us...

...attack. Religious readers pointed with horror at Darwin's too vivid description of man's ancestor as " a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in habits." Darwin's work and everything connected with it aroused virulent hostility throughout the 186o's...

...we come to propositions so interesting as Mr. Darwin's famous proposition that 'our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.'" Arnold does not reject this proposition nor declare it irrelevant to humane letters. Instead, he argues...

..."scientific." I may have no right to object to Mr. Darwin's believing 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," but I can not be denied the right to ask him to produce...

...ancestor more generalized than any of its living descendants. This ancestor was, according to Darwin, a "hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Darwin's argument was a biological one, structured...

...his investigations, Darwin states as his opinion that man must be considered as " descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." < According to Hackel, this Homo primigenius was a blackish, woolly-haired,...

...aspect — the sensational news that all people were descended not from Adam but from the apes: from 'a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits'. Darwin had been collecting data on the formation of species ever since his voyage on HMS...