The differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate them it would be necessary to have all the evolution over again on a new basis. What was decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament. Science, Sex, and Society - Page 303by Ann E. Kammer - 1979 - 569 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1908 - 804 pages
...that political evolution shall proceed slowly, and, to quote the striking words of a recent writer: " What was decided among the prehistoric protozoa cannot be annulled by act of parliament." ' Still it is true that the progress of political evolution, as well as of biologic, can be greatly... | |
 | Edwin Walter Kemmerer - 1908 - 32 pages
...that political evolution shall proceed slowly, and, to quote the striking words of a recent writer: " What was decided among the prehistoric protozoa cannot be annulled by act of parliament." * Still it is true that the progress of political evolution, as well as of biologic, can be greatly... | |
 | Robert Wilson Shufeldt - 1915 - 442 pages
...causes which produces the great sexual differences between the negro and white race. 'These differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate...decided among the prehistoric Protozoa, cannot be changed by an act of Congress' (Geddes and Thompson). "The negro problem can be solved only by dealing... | |
 | Robert Briffault - 1927 - 814 pages
...in a large measure determined the groundwork of what we term 'human nature.' As has been well said, "what was decided among the prehistoric protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament." 1 During that stage of evolution which is covered by the career of the human race the development of... | |
 | Nancy Tuana - 1989 - 268 pages
...sperm and egg as representing two divergent forms of metabolism established by protozoan organisms, and "what was decided among the prehistoric protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament." Furthermore, as in Aristotle, the difference between the two is nutrition. The motivating force impelling... | |
 | Thomas Laqueur - 1992 - 342 pages
...nevertheless justified the respective cultural roles of men and women with breathtaking boldness. Differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate...among the pre-historic Protozoa cannot be annulled by an act of Parliament."17 Microscopic organisms wallowing in the primordial ooze determined the irreducible... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1992 - 216 pages
...Geddes. Originally trained as a biologist, he was committed to an emphasis on sexual difference, since 'what was decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament',3 but although the differences he perceived have today become cliches of conservative thought... | |
 | Gail Bederman - 2008 - 322 pages
...sexual difference, both feminist and antifeminist. Geddes and Thompson themselves were antifeminists: "What was decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament," they archly told woman suffragists. 103 Yet Gilman, like many other feminists of her generation, found... | |
 | Patricia Gowaty - 1997 - 650 pages
...difference in constitution expresses itself in the distinctions between male and female. These differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate...them, it would be necessary to have all the evolution all over again on a new basis. What was decided among the pre-historic protozoa cannot annulled by... | |
 | Lucy Bland, Laura Doan - 1999 - 282 pages
...itself in the distinctions between male and female, whether these be physical or mental. The differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate...Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament. In this mere outline we cannot of course do more than indicate the relation of the biological differences... | |
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