...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...

...theory of the work is thus broadly stated (ii. 389): ' We thus learn (query) that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...naturalist, would have been classed amongst the quadrumana, ns surely as would the common, and still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys....

...Mr. Charles Darwin only repeats Helvetius and Lord Monboddo when he tells us, " that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...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...

...approximately place them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed...examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as would the common and still more ancient progenitor of the Old and...

...that man is descended from a hairy quadrupedTTurnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably aboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World....examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as would the common and still more ancient progenitor of the Old and...

...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...

...inferior animals the monkey is our nearest of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...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...

...indelible stamp of his lowly origin." He adduces many arguments for the belief that " man is descended. from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...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...

...of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...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...

...of the same advantages of circumstances or of education. Mr. Darwin believes that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...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...