And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was "a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits... College Life - Página 112por Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 524 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1882 - 884 páginas
...turned in favor of the humanities the No wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel, against the Eternal ! which seemed against them when we started. The " hairy...and pointed ears probably arboreal in his habits," carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane... | |
| 1882 - 404 páginas
...of man from a lower order of animal life, resulting in the inference that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits." But it may be said in a general way that Mr. Darwin's theory was simply a logical application... | |
| 1882 - 590 páginas
...content with expressing his belief that " man is certainly descended from some ape-like creature"—" a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ;" he traces our early progenitors to an aquatic animal,... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1882 - 440 páginas
...presence of this knob, according to Darwin, indicates ' the descent ' of you and me, my friends, ' from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.' I was especially careful to examine the gorilla's... | |
| 1882 - 828 páginas
...Catarrhine or Old World monkeys." And thence follows the following lovely picture: "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." 2. Natural and unteleological selection. The variations... | |
| 1883 - 654 páginas
...faces of his audience — for the article consists of a lecture — when, more than once, he mentioned the ''hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits." Still, it is possible to conceive of a time when the division between literature and science shall... | |
| Edward Walford - 1883 - 596 páginas
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| Edward A. Thomas - 1883 - 654 páginas
...from parents to offspring; and in another work he states his inference that "man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits." Mr. Darwin was a member of various English and foreign scientific institutes, received... | |
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