 I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves ; and I may add the expression of my belief...  America's Greatest Problem: the Negro - Page 17by Robert Wilson Shufeldt - 1915 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Tindal Robertson - 1867 - 374 pages
...away this vanity. I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...the animal world and ourselves, and I may add the eipression of my belief, that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1872 - 494 pages
...lower animals ; or, in the words of a recent writer, " No absolute structural line of demarcation wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile; and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect... | |
 | Alfred Newton - 1874 - 144 pages
...highest form — MAN himself. It is undeniably true that no absolute structural lino of demarcation wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the rest of the brutes and ourselves. Yet to borrow the words of a great writer : — " Our reverence for... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...he replies : — ' I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that * Evidence at to Afan'i Place in Nature, p. 65. j... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - 1875 - 524 pages
...absolutely structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which im• mediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves." And while I don't comprehend a word of this cursed gibberish, I am expected to bow, and look wise, and... | |
 | Charles Elam - 1876 - 186 pages
...in the work already quoted. After showing ' that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...be drawn between the animal world and ourselves,' he indicates the essential superiority of man, as being 'the only consciously intelligent denizen of... | |
 | 1877 - 820 pages
...intellectual, emotional, and even moral. Huxley says, " No absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect... | |
 | 1877 - 1212 pages
...in the work already quoted. After showing " that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...be drawn between the animal world and ourselves," he indicates the essential superiority of man, as being " the only consciously intelligent denizen... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - 812 pages
...in the work already quoted. After showing " that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...be drawn between the animal world and ourselves," he indicates the essential superiority of man, as being " the only consciously intelligent denizen... | |
 | Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1880 - 704 pages
...p. 109) observes: 'I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed...expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and intellect... | |
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