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
| Irving Stone - 1980 - 752 Seiten
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| Elisabeth Jay - 1986 - 160 Seiten
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| Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 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 nobler Future. Likening humanity to the Alpine peaks, Huxley envisions the incredulity of the traveler who is told... | |
| Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 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 nobler Future.' This 'lowlyorigin, noble-future' picture would have fallen flat among the portswilling aristocracy,... | |
| Mary Midgley - 1994 - 220 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 nobler Future. There follows a tremendous paean on human excellence, a paean intended to show that, just as mountains... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 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 nobler Future. They will remember that m comparmg civilized man with the ammal world, one is as the Alpine traveller,... | |
| Jack Cuozzo - 1998 - 354 Seiten
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| Adam Lively - 2000 - 306 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 nobler Future. More philosophically, Sir Charles Lyell, in his peroration to The Antiquity of Man, portrays evolution... | |
| Jeffrey Kevin McKee - 2000 - 312 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 nobler Future. —Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature On a weekend afternoon in the Makapansgat valley, I normally... | |
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