The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895W. Blackwood and Sons, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina xi
... progress ? Even if we cannot accurately portray the anatomical details of a single ancestral stage , can we perhaps dis- cover what function governed its life and was the aim of its existence ? Did it live to eat , or to move , or to ...
... progress ? Even if we cannot accurately portray the anatomical details of a single ancestral stage , can we perhaps dis- cover what function governed its life and was the aim of its existence ? Did it live to eat , or to move , or to ...
Pagina xiv
... a chaos of forces aiding or destroy ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- XV ceding , and surviving , for a time at.
... a chaos of forces aiding or destroy ing good and bad , fit and unfit , alike . But our history of animal and human progress shows us successive stages , each a little higher than the pre- XV ceding , and surviving , for a time at.
Pagina 4
... progress has added the total of life ; its degeneration harmed hardly even itself ; it was doomed from t Progress there has been , in a sense . The Cre placed ever higher forms on the globe . Bu progress lies in the gaps and distances ...
... progress has added the total of life ; its degeneration harmed hardly even itself ; it was doomed from t Progress there has been , in a sense . The Cre placed ever higher forms on the globe . Bu progress lies in the gaps and distances ...
Pagina 15
... progress moving steadily on through past centuries , we have full confidence that these move- ments will continue in the future . The study of his- tory should make us seers . But the line of human progress is like a mountain road ...
... progress moving steadily on through past centuries , we have full confidence that these move- ments will continue in the future . The study of his- tory should make us seers . But the line of human progress is like a mountain road ...
Pagina 16
... progress . Many of the most promising social movements are like by - roads which , at first less steep and difficult , end sooner or later against impassable obstacles . And even if there be a main line of march , advance seems to ...
... progress . Many of the most promising social movements are like by - roads which , at first less steep and difficult , end sooner or later against impassable obstacles . And even if there be a main line of march , advance seems to ...
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The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and ... John Mason Tyler Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
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