The Anthropological Review, Томи 3 – 4

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Trübner and Company, 1866
 

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Сторінка 206 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Сторінка 113 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Сторінка cix - ... that all servitude for life, or slavery of children, in consequence of the slavery of their mothers, in the case of all children born within this State from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid, shall be, and hereby is, utterly taken away, extinguished, and forever abolished.
Сторінка 16 - ... still is, on the brink of a volcano which may at any moment burst into fury. There is scarcely a district or a parish in the island 7where disloyalty, sedition, and murderous intentions are not widely disseminated, and in many instances openly expressed.
Сторінка 130 - ... would have thought it an excellent thing if all the rest could have been compelled to travel his road, their attempts to thwart each other's development have rarely had any permanent success, and each has in time endured to receive the good which the others have offered. Europe is, in my judgment, wholly indebted to this plurality of paths for its progressive and many-sided development.
Сторінка 108 - Human history cannot be a mere chapter of accidents. The fate of nations cannot always be regulated by chance ; its literature-, science, art, wealth, religion, language, laws, and morals, cannot surely be the result of mere accidental circumstances.
Сторінка 333 - ... he had not yet acquired that wonderfully developed brain, the organ of the mind, which now, even in his lowest examples, raises him far above the highest brutes;—at a period when he had the form but hardly the nature of man, when Y he neither possessed human speech, nor those sympathetic and moral feelings which in a greater or less degree everywhere now distinguish the race.
Сторінка 322 - That there is as good reason for classifying the Negro as a distinct species from the European, as there is for making the ass a distinct species from the zebra...
Сторінка 276 - I wish the black sympathisers in England could see Africa's inmost heart as I do, much of their sympathy would subside. Human nature viewed in its crude state as pictured amongst African savages is quite on a level with that of the brute, and not to be compared with the noble character of the dog. There is neither gratitude, pity, love, nor self-denial ; no idea of 1867.] Baker's African Explorations. 337 duty ; no religion ; but covetousness, ingratitude, selfishness and cruelty.
Сторінка 388 - A little step-by-step reasoning will convince the unprejudiced that what we call civilisation must have been a gradual process; can it be supposed that the inhabitants of Central America or of Egypt suddenly and what is called instinctively built their cities, carved and ornamented their monuments? If not, if they must have learned to construct such erections, did it not take time to acquire such learning, to invent tools as occasion required, contrivances to raise weights, rules or laws by which...

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