 Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a...  The Origin of Thought and Speech - Seite 36von M. Moncalm - 1905 - 306 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 Seiten
...In the conclusion of the last mentioned work he treats us to the following consoling assurance — " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes of a still higher destiny in the distant future. . . . We must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 508 Seiten
...remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 Seiten
...perfect statue now rough-cast in clay."1 Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of this great advance from a lowly origin constitutes in itself a prophecy of a still higher destiny in... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - 1880 - 164 Seiten
...he was connected, had no knowledge of God, of a soul, or of any future state. Darwin remarks, that " man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...of having been aboriginally placed there, may give hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future." The belief in a future life amongst the civilized... | |
 | M. M. Kalisch - 1880 - 682 Seiten
...feeling some pride at having risen ... to the very summit of the organic scale, . . . and this . . . may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we must acknowledge that, with all his noble qualities, . . . with his god-like intellect, he still... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 Seiten
...remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstition. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future." Mr. Dai win's name is associated almost exclusively... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 Seiten
...remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted hy the grossest superstitions. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or... | |
 | Robert Hartmann - 1885 - 402 Seiten
...with the reproduction of the fine passage with which Darwin ends his work on the descent of man. " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth, as far as our reason allows... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 Seiten
...remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having...for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1887 - 606 Seiten
...alone give it force. " Man," he observes, " may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of his having so risen, instead of being aboriginally placed there, may give him some hope for a still higher destiny... | |
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