 | 1861 - 396 páginas
...savages : " It was," says he, " without exception, the most curious and interesting spectacle I had ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was...between savage and civilized man. It is greater than that between a wild and a domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.... | |
 | Titus Coan - 1880 - 344 páginas
...continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld: I could not have...was the difference between savage and civilized man. . . . • The party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Der... | |
 | Church of England - 1883 - 858 páginas
...following remarks, which we extract from that volume: ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld. I could not have...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man; it is greater t lian between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there... | |
 | Robert Young (of the Free ch. of Scotland.) - 1883 - 456 páginas
...moral condition of the natives of Tierra del Fuego— " It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was 1 The first attempts to instruct and christianize the Fuegians, it has been stated, were made by Admiral... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 páginas
...the most curious and interesting spectacle" he ever beheld. " I could not have believed," he says, " how wide was the difference between savage and civilized...and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is greater power of improvement." In Tierra del Fuego Mr. Darwin had many opportunities of studying man... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1885 - 502 páginas
...1832, he saw of the natives of Terra del Fuego " : — " It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was the difference between the savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch... | |
 | 1890 - 906 páginas
...talking ^ and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without excep, tion the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld : I could not have believed ,how wide was the djiflEerenceJbetween savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild ajuTtlomesticated... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 páginas
...continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld : I could not...old, and appeared to be the head of the family ; the three1 others were powerful young men, about si:t feet high. The women and children had been sent away.... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1903 - 528 páginas
...liz1 Darwin, on first seeing the Fuegians, wrote : " It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld : I could not...as in man there is a greater power of improvement." — "Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the... | |
 | James Wells - 1908 - 522 páginas
...place side by side a heathen and a Christian Fuegian. ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld. I could not have...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man. It seems yet wonderful to me when I think over all his (a Fuegian convert's) many good... | |
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It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld : I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man... 
