 Nay more, thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the past,...  Educational Review - Seite 661902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 402 Seiten
...thoughtless people were ready to discern — as Huxley suggested — in man's "long progress through the past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future." and Winwood Reade, a young African traveller, exhibited it in a vivid book as a long-drawn-out martyrdom.... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 404 Seiten
...many thoughtless people were ready to discern—as Huxley suggested—in man's "long progress through the past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future." and Winwood Reade, a. young African traveller, exhibited it in a vivid book as a long-drawn-out martyrdom.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1920 - 202 Seiten
..."lowly stock," "the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities," and "in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a noble Future." One of the great moments in Huxley's career was his reply to Wilberforce who, as the... | |
 | Lorande Loss Woodruff - 1922 - 508 Seiten
...the best evidence of the splendor of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler Future. — Huxley. EVERYONE recognizes not only that there are many kinds of animals and plants, but also... | |
 | John Mason Tyler - 1923 - 168 Seiten
...the best evidence of the splendor of his capacities, and will discern in his long progress through the past a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future." 5 The air on the mountain-top is rarefied and the light dazzling; the language of its inhabitants sounds... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - 1924 - 606 Seiten
...the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a noble Future. They will remember that in comparing civilised men with the animal world, one is as the... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1926 - 436 Seiten
...generation it is only the flower of the 82 his capacities, and will discern in his long progress through the past a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future." But, as we shall see, a still more reasonable ground of faith in man's attainment of a nobler future... | |
 | 1864 - 756 Seiten
...the best evidence of the splendor of his capacities ; and will discern in his long progress through the past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future. " They will remember that in comparing civilized man with the animal world, one is as the Alpine traveller,... | |
 | Victor Robinson - 1931 - 562 Seiten
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