Origin and Antiquity of ManH. A. Copley, 1896 - 218 páginas |
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advance Africa allied America ancient animal world appear Arctic Arctic Ocean arms arrow-head Aryan Asia Asiatic belong Berber bones Borneo brain branches bronze Buriats Caucasus cave century character chimpanzee Chinese civilization climate colour common complexion continent dialects domestic animals drift dwell earth Eocene Europe European existence express extinct feet Finnic flint foot forest fossil geological gibbon gorilla Greek hair hence horse human hundred Ice Age ideas Indian inhabited islands Kaffers language Lapps latter lemurs living lowest man's mankind Mongols monkeys mountains Nature Neanderthall skull negro northern Ocean offspring orang organs origin Ostiaks Pelasgi perfect period perish Persian present preserved provinces race regions remains remote resembling rhinoceros Sanskrit savage scattered Semitic sheep Siberia skeleton smallest Southern species speech stone structure tertiary Teutonic thousand tion tongue tribes Turanian vast vertebræ vertebral column Votiaks wild words Yenisei
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Página 50 - When the children are old enough to shift for themselves, they usually separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the other. At night they sleep under some large tree, the branches of which hang low.
Página 55 - ... infirm old people. The infant progeny, some of whom are beginning to lisp, while others can just master a whole sentence, and those still further advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through their livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own.
Página 44 - ... to be kept up, either by touching the ground with the knuckles, first on one side then on the other, or by uplifting the arms so as to poise it.
Página 109 - Over a million and a half of square leagues, from Cape Horn to the river St. Lawrence and Behring's Straits, we are struck at the first glance with the general resemblance in the features of the inhabitants. We think we perceive them all to be descended from the same stock, notwithstanding the prodigious diversity of their languages. In...
Página ii - Natural History of Mankind, which the study of the geographical distribution of all the organized beings now existing upon earth has disclosed to us. It is a fact which cannot fail to throw light at some future time upon the very origin of the differences existing among men, since it shows that man's physical nature is modified by the same laws as that of animals, and that any general results obtained from the animal kingdom regarding the organic differences of its various types must also apply to...
Página 73 - PERMANENT VARIETIES are those which, having once taken place, continue to be propagated in the breed in perpetuity. The fact of their origination must be known by observation or inference, since, the proof of this fact being defective, it is more philosophical to consider characters which are perpetually inherited as specific or original.
Página 50 - Archipelago," in which they are reprinted : " Farther towards the north of Borneo are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground nor live in huts ; who neither eat rice nor salt, and who do not associate with each other, but rove about some woods like wild beasts. The sexes meet in the jungle, or the man carries away a woman from some kampong.
Página 8 - If a species or variety the man sprang up in Europe, and another in America, by agency of conditions existing in those localities, it would be beyond probability that they should both be formed on the same plan: what then of the possibility of sixty-three or more species being formed on the same model? Deny we may, with plausibility, the origin of the diverse races from a single pair sir thousand years ago; but the bond of union which exists between them points to a common source.
Página 108 - The Indians of New Spain bear a general resemblance to those who inhabit Canada, Florida, Peru and Brazil. They have the same swarthy and copper...
Página 110 - Structure is far more permanent than words, and the aggluterative method of formation in all these dialects is unfavourable to the preservation of the original or root^word. Barton has discovered " traces of the Samoiede dialects, unequivocally preserved in an immense portion of .America;" and Vater has shown, "that in respect to most of the words denoting universal ideas, and sensible objects of perpetual ; recurrence, words may be found nearly resembling each other in some of the idioms of America,...