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 FacultiesCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 - 280 من الصفحات |
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... Probably , however , it would be nearer the truth , were we to say that man , if divested of his intellectual powers , and endued merely with his animal nature , would be inferior to the brutes ; for , possessing , as is the case , very ...
... Probably , however , it would be nearer the truth , were we to say that man , if divested of his intellectual powers , and endued merely with his animal nature , would be inferior to the brutes ; for , possessing , as is the case , very ...
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... probably is not very far from the truth , in vain does the ambi- tious student rob nature of that sleep which Provi- dence has made necessary for the renovation of the exhausted powers of our mind , as well as of our body ; and in vain ...
... probably is not very far from the truth , in vain does the ambi- tious student rob nature of that sleep which Provi- dence has made necessary for the renovation of the exhausted powers of our mind , as well as of our body ; and in vain ...
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... probably , of touch . If , in ascending still higher the scale of animal existence , we examine the nervous system of fish , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , we find that those parts which are subservient to the nutrition of the ...
... probably , of touch . If , in ascending still higher the scale of animal existence , we examine the nervous system of fish , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , we find that those parts which are subservient to the nutrition of the ...
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... probably , to the manifestation of the intellectual powers and moral affections . Of the two first of the foregoing divisions it is not necessary to speak more at large ; because no doubt exists in the minds of physiologists as to the ...
... probably , to the manifestation of the intellectual powers and moral affections . Of the two first of the foregoing divisions it is not necessary to speak more at large ; because no doubt exists in the minds of physiologists as to the ...
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... probably produced delirium : and , as a rational state of the faculties may be considered , to use a mathematical expression , as a mean propor- tional to fatuity and delirium , it might be expected that the same cause which would raise ...
... probably produced delirium : and , as a rational state of the faculties may be considered , to use a mathematical expression , as a mean propor- tional to fatuity and delirium , it might be expected that the same cause which would raise ...
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