An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of ManBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 739 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 53
Page xii
... authorities from which I have drawn many of the facts and arguments used in the course of my work . It was impossible ; my library is too small . Confined to my room during the whole time I have been engaged in my work , in an ...
... authorities from which I have drawn many of the facts and arguments used in the course of my work . It was impossible ; my library is too small . Confined to my room during the whole time I have been engaged in my work , in an ...
Page xv
... authority over the consciences and intellects of Men . Her day is passed . Public opinion and Conscience supply her place . Philosophers and Theologians . Scepticism of philosophers not dangerous : Corrected by the progress of Science ...
... authority over the consciences and intellects of Men . Her day is passed . Public opinion and Conscience supply her place . Philosophers and Theologians . Scepticism of philosophers not dangerous : Corrected by the progress of Science ...
Page 40
... authority - the winds , the waves , steam , electricity ; who will prescribe the limit of his psychical power - the triumphs of his genius ? What Natural History of Man can be writ- ten without noticing his psychical phenomena ? Our ...
... authority - the winds , the waves , steam , electricity ; who will prescribe the limit of his psychical power - the triumphs of his genius ? What Natural History of Man can be writ- ten without noticing his psychical phenomena ? Our ...
Page 46
... authority of keeping the consciences of men , and also usurped civil power to enforce her claim over the Christian world , she could easily suppress philosophical specu- lations which she thought heretical in doctrine , or adverse to ...
... authority of keeping the consciences of men , and also usurped civil power to enforce her claim over the Christian world , she could easily suppress philosophical specu- lations which she thought heretical in doctrine , or adverse to ...
Page 76
... authority of Josephus . We will presently endeavor to ascertain what dependence should be placed on his authority . But in the mean time we make use of the fact , that the original languages from which the present tongues are supposed ...
... authority of Josephus . We will presently endeavor to ascertain what dependence should be placed on his authority . But in the mean time we make use of the fact , that the original languages from which the present tongues are supposed ...
Other editions - View all
An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man William Frederick Van Amringe No preview available - 2020 |
An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man William Frederick Van Amringe No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
Adam and Eve Africa analogy ancient appear Asia Assyria attributes beauty called Canaan Canaanites Caucasian Caucasian race cause Chaldea character chimpanzee civilization climate color compared confusion of tongues constitutional temperaments creation creation of Adam Creator dark races degree descendants different species distinct distribution domestic animals earth Egypt equal Europe European examples exhibit fact Germans Greeks habits hair human family human species important individual influence inhabitants instincts Ishmaelites Japhethic Japhethites John Pye Smith Josephus language mankind ment mind mode moral and intellectual mucosum mulatto nations Natural History necessary Negro Noah object organization original parents patriarchal peculiar Pelasgians perfect period philosophers physical polygamy possess principle probably produced progressive improvement prove psychical reason regard remarkable respect says sexual relations Shem Shemitic species Shinar specific differences sufficient suppose Tacitus theory things tion tongues variety vegetables whole women words zoological Zoophytic
Popular passages
Page 439 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse...
Page 62 - SCRIPTURE AND GEOLOGY; On the Relation between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of Geological Science.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 60 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 438 - 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 444 - 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 86 - 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 438 - 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 - 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 115 - 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.