An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of ManBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 739 pages |
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... vegetable analo- gies . Man the only analogue for Man . Comparative Anatomy and Craniology are too narrow for foundations of this History . Heeren's view of the subject . His questions in regard to color are important only because it is ...
... vegetable analo- gies . Man the only analogue for Man . Comparative Anatomy and Craniology are too narrow for foundations of this History . Heeren's view of the subject . His questions in regard to color are important only because it is ...
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... Vegetables . Habitats of Vegetables and Animals . Causes which influence them . Vegetables possess the power of chemical assimila- tion , which animals do not . Theories of distribution . One Centre . Several Centres . Spontaneous ...
... Vegetables . Habitats of Vegetables and Animals . Causes which influence them . Vegetables possess the power of chemical assimila- tion , which animals do not . Theories of distribution . One Centre . Several Centres . Spontaneous ...
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... Vegetable , Animal , and Human . Examples . Beauty of the Imagination . Mixed Beauty . Of the Heart . Human Beauty influenced by Temperament . Geographic lines insufficient to separate species . Specific Tastes for Beauty . Specific ...
... Vegetable , Animal , and Human . Examples . Beauty of the Imagination . Mixed Beauty . Of the Heart . Human Beauty influenced by Temperament . Geographic lines insufficient to separate species . Specific Tastes for Beauty . Specific ...
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... vegetables , every known fact proves an original single centre of dis- tribution , or creation , of man , in Asia , in the neigh- borhood , of the Euphrates . That the progressive development and improve- ment of the human SUBJECTS ...
... vegetables , every known fact proves an original single centre of dis- tribution , or creation , of man , in Asia , in the neigh- borhood , of the Euphrates . That the progressive development and improve- ment of the human SUBJECTS ...
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... vegetables in their primeval state , for the multiplication of the race of man , to an extent of many thousand souls . " This is entirely a supposition , opposed not only to the letter , but the spirit of the narrative , that the murder ...
... vegetables in their primeval state , for the multiplication of the race of man , to an extent of many thousand souls . " This is entirely a supposition , opposed not only to the letter , but the spirit of the narrative , that the murder ...
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Page 144 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Page 474 - I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest...
Page 96 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Page 474 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 52 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 52 - I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 125 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
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