...will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was ' a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits,' there will be found to arise an invincible desire to relate this proposition to the sense...

...family; 3. The two, as is necessary, may have been concurrently developed; Therefore: " Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arborial in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had...

...places in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy-tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant...creature, if its whole structure had been examined by the naturalist, would have been classed among the quadrumana, as surely as the still more ancient progenitor...

...never understood. Let them forget for a while the burning insult of being accused of having "descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears probably arboreal in its habits," under which they still chafe, and let them penetrate into the deep mines of scientific research, and,...

...following remarkable statements: "We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant...examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the quadrumana, as sure as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys....

...is he merely an improved brute, the lineal descendant — and I use Mr. Darwin's own words — "of a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World"? Such is the question presented, and the mighty issues involved in it will be seen at a glance by every...

...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...its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old "World." Herbert Spencer teaches us, " that feeling and nervous action are the inner and outer faces of the...

...place in the zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant...would have been classed amongst the Quadrumana, as surelv as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys. The Quadrumana and all...

...of gradual changes in natural descent. In his " Descent of Man," he infers that " man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits." Darwin, Erasmus. 1731-1802. English physician and poet. D'Aubigne, Jean Henri Merle. 1794-1872. Swiss...

...last we come to propositions as interesting as Mr. Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.' Or we come to propositions of such reach and magnitude as those which Prof. Huxley delivers,...