 | 1870 - 406 sidor
...our time. The first Adam of Science, according to its chief prophet, is " an ape-like creature," — "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." The first Adam of Scripture suddenly leaps into life by the quickening breath of the Almighty, and... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 sidor
...tolerance. The general theory of the work is thus broadly stated (ii. 389): ' We thus learn (query) that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...Old World. This creature, . if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst the quadrumana, ns surely as would... | |
 | 1878 - 920 sidor
...the Age of Science. Mr. Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Mr. Spencer literally follows David Hume, when he asserts that the illusion of the freedom of the will... | |
 | 1871 - 778 sidor
...early progenitors, and can approximately place them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped...the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as would... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 540 sidor
...early progenitors ; and can approximately place them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped,...the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst the Quadrumana, as surely as would... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 sidor
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
 | 1871 - 598 sidor
...generation, but deprived of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ; " though again we are not specifically informed whether this creature is the missing link between... | |
 | 1871 - 636 sidor
...hi* bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old 'World." He concludes that " man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor." And this genealogy... | |
 | 1871 - 588 sidor
...acknowledge that among the inferior animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix, or outward fold of the human ear, к a vestige... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 sidor
...related, or as effect and cause connected. But now suppose, " Man is descended," according to Darwin, " from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." yet we have man to deal with, human nature to observe and study scientifically. This study, to say... | |
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We thus learn that 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. 
