On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual FacultiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 375 من الصفحات |
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... ture of the subject , seemed to him almost neces- sarily to exclude any great exactness of eluci- dation , and to require a popular rather than a scientific exposition of facts ; and as the whole tenour of his pursuits during the last ...
... ture of the subject , seemed to him almost neces- sarily to exclude any great exactness of eluci- dation , and to require a popular rather than a scientific exposition of facts ; and as the whole tenour of his pursuits during the last ...
الصفحة 21
... ; others , with an unnecessary anxiety , have laboured to vindicate the supposed insult thus offered to the dignity of human na- ture , by searching for some fixed and invariable difference C 3 PHYSICAL CHARACTER OF MAN . 21.
... ; others , with an unnecessary anxiety , have laboured to vindicate the supposed insult thus offered to the dignity of human na- ture , by searching for some fixed and invariable difference C 3 PHYSICAL CHARACTER OF MAN . 21.
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... ture , by searching for some fixed and invariable difference in the structure of corresponding parts of each . But the question is puerile : for let us even suppose that the whole and every part of the structure of the ape were the same ...
... ture , by searching for some fixed and invariable difference in the structure of corresponding parts of each . But the question is puerile : for let us even suppose that the whole and every part of the structure of the ape were the same ...
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... ture , on which depends the love of novelty ; namely , that susceptibility of the nerves which makes them capable of being stimulated more vehemently by new , than by accustomed im- pressions for certainly this principle is likely to be ...
... ture , on which depends the love of novelty ; namely , that susceptibility of the nerves which makes them capable of being stimulated more vehemently by new , than by accustomed im- pressions for certainly this principle is likely to be ...
الصفحة 44
... ture of the brain and the exercise of the mental faculties , as in the case of the eye and light , and of the ear and sound ; yet the indications of a natural connexion between the two are both clear and numerous . And hence not only ...
... ture of the brain and the exercise of the mental faculties , as in the case of the eye and light , and of the ear and sound ; yet the indications of a natural connexion between the two are both clear and numerous . And hence not only ...
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