... and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability of their manners is the natural consequence of the imperfection of their... Man, Past and Present - Página 318por Augustus Henry Keane - 1899 - 584 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 páginas
...easier to ascertain the appetites of an uncultivated being, than the speculations of a philosopher. The savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of the inferior classes of animation, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves, and to each other,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped, than the speculations of a philosopher; itnd the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 524 páginas
...speculations of a philosopher — the qualifications of a negro than the accomplishments of a scholar — and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to each other : otherwise we might be surprised at the... | |
| 1837 - 538 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped, than the speculations of a philosopher; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| 1837 - 260 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped, than the speculations of a philosopher ; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| 1843 - 350 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped, than the speculations of a philosopher ; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped than the speculations of a philosopher ; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| 1864 - 974 páginas
...much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped than the speculations of a philosopher ; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| John Wells Foster - 1874 - 434 páginas
...society was in a purely hunter state. Causes which lead to permanence of type. — Gibbon has appositely remarked that " the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
| Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1900 - 508 páginas
...See Bancroft's " Native Races of the Pacific States,*' pp. 753-757. Gibbon,* the famous historian, has shrewdly remarked that the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to the animals and to each other. The uniform stability... | |
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