A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern ResearchLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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A Manual of Anthropology, Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research Charles Bray Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research Charles Bray Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
A Manual of Anthropology, Or, Science of Man: Based on Modern Research Charles Bray Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
according animals anthropomorphic Atheism become believe bodily body brain called cause character civilisation colour conscience consciousness consequences correlation creation creatures creed Darwin death depends doubt duty earth effect enjoyment equally evil existence external fact faculties feeling force functions George Combe give happiness heat Hegel Henry Maudsley Herbert Spencer highest human Huxley ideas increase individual infinite instinct intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill labour larvæ laws living man's manifestation matter Max Müller mental millions mind modes of action moral motion Natural Selection nerve nervous system object opinion organ organisation pain Pall Mall Gazette passed persons phenomena Philosophy Phrenology physical Physiology pleasure present principle probably produce Prof proportion protoplasm race recognised relation Religion requires says sense Sir John Lubbock social soul Spinoza spirit supposed tells things thought tion tissue truth unity universe wants whole
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Page 236 - The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 247 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 92 - To render happy : all who joy would win Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Page 232 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.
Page 62 - Is it not extraordinary ? —when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak, or be silent; I am full of suspicions, and therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.
Page 201 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 341 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Page 248 - Strip it naked, and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself — emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena — were once latent in a fiery cloud.
Page 223 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 237 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go. 'Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.