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The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise ... - Page 570
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1877 - 669 pages
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 19

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...extended the sphere of ' those rights, and include within them ' all the brotherhood of man. But it " is not too much to say, that the mass " of our populations...•• morals, and have in many cases sunk " below it. " but these have brought with them " such an amount of poverty and crime, " and have fostered the growth...
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The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, Volume 6

1869 - 860 pages
...the savage state in intellectual achievements, we have not advanced equally in morals. . . . It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations...code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it. ... Our vast manufacturing system, our gigantic commerce, our crowded towns and cities, support and...
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Papers Read at the Meetings of the Metaphysical Society, Volume 1

1869 - 280 pages
...stage of civilization, we find some approach to such a perfect social state ; " and he adds, " it is not too much to say that the mass of our populations...of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it." Far from thinking this true, I should rather be disposed to say that Man has, perhaps, made more progress...
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The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, Volume 6

1869 - 614 pages
...savage state in intellectual achievements, we have not advanced equally in morals. . . . It is nof too much to say that the mass of our populations have...code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it. ... Our vast manufacturing system, our gigaWic commerce, our crowded towns and cities, support and...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 4

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1870 - 528 pages
...condition of barbarous tribes, he finds litole cause of pride or joy in the social state of England. It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations...code of morals and have in many cases sunk below it. During the last century, and especially in the last thirty years, our intellectual and material advancement...
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The Lakeside Monthly, Volume 7

Francis Fisher Broune - 1872 - 520 pages
...extended the sphere of those rights, and include within them all the brotherhood of man. But is it not too much to say, that the mass of our populations have notat all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it? A deficient...
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The permanence of Christianity, lectures preached before the University of ...

John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...beyond the savage state in intellectual achievements, we have not advanced equally in morals ... It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations...of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it." Sir John Lubbock's researches lead him to the exact reverse of this opinion. The savage, he holds,...
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Rousseau, Volume 1

John Morley (visct.) - 1873 - 368 pages
...extended the sphere of those rights, and include within them all the brotherhood of man. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations...the savage code of morals, and have in many cases Bunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Arehipelago, vol. ii. pp. 460 — 1. vast process, working forwards...
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Rousseau, Volume 1

John Morley - 1873 - 368 pages
...them all the brotherhood of msn. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations havo not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. pp. 460 — 1. vast process, working forwards through the...
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Rousseau, Volume 1

John Morley - 1873 - 368 pages
...them all the brotherhood of man. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations havo not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many 1 sunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. pp. 400 — 1. vast process, working forwards...
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