| 1871 - 488 pages
...the subject, but Geology emphatically denies the existence of such a creature, tt is easy to imagine "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of ihe Old World," but it is quite another thing to prove it, and in the entire absence of proof we cannot... | |
| 1871 - 688 pages
...pd) im Kaukasus. Darwin believes that „man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished v, it lis a tail and pointed ears , probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." Wenn der Kriegsruf und die ersten Schüsse ertönen, brauchen die Pferde, das Vieh, Schaafe und Ziegen... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1871 - 642 pages
...p d.) im Kaukasus. Darwin believes that „man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished withs a tail and pointed ears , probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World." Wenn der Kriegsruf und die ersten Schasse ertönen, brauchen die Pferde, das Vieh, Schaafe und Ziegen... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1871 - 780 pages
...provided with great canine teeth, which served them as formidable weapons." " This creature, if his whole structure had been 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... | |
| 1872 - 794 pages
...progenitors." "We thus learn (he says in his last chapter on " The Descent of Man,") that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...naturalist, would have been classed amongst the Quadrumana," or four-handed animals. Such teaching as this absolutely contradicts the doctrine of Scripture ; and... | |
| 1872 - 832 pages
...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...a naturalist, would have been classed amongst the Quadrumaua as surely as would the common, and still more ancient, progenitors of the Old and New World... | |
| Charles William Grant (col.) - 1872 - 98 pages
...the chimpanzee, or from one as powerful as the gorilla ; " and " We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." " It is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere."... | |
| 1872 - 366 pages
...consideration of a very remote antiquity indeed for genus homo. " We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World."* A large fossil monkey having been discovered in Miocene strata, his conclusion is, that we are the... | |
| William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 178 pages
...affirms that I am " certainly descended from some ape-like creature." " Man," he says, " is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world." (Vol. ii. p. 389.) " The early progenitors of man," he says again, " were no doubt well covered with... | |
| 1872 - 684 pages
...not perhaps, at first sight, tend to raise our conception of self to be told that "man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world " ; nor will our pride be encouraged by knowing that "this creature, if its whole structure had been... | |
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