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Page 120 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 144 - Vitruvius £lib. ii. cap. i.], that the first Men lived, for some time, in woods and caves, after the manner of beasts, uttering only confused and indistinct noises ; till associating for mutual assistance, they came, by degrees, to use articulate sounds, mutually agreed upon, for the arbitrary signs or marks of those ideas in the mind of the speaker, which he wanted to communicate to the hearer. Hence the diversity of languages ; for it is confessed on all hands, that speech is not innate.
Page 71 - I could not doubt, as numerous traits of their conduct show; but beyond this I could satisfy myself of nothing; nor did these efforts and many more enable me to conjecture aught...
Page 38 - Not being able to appreciate or conceive of the distinction between the psychical phenomena of a Chimpanzee and of a Boschisman or of an Aztec, with arrested brain growth, as being of a nature so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the significance of that all-pervading similitude of structure — every tooth, every bone, strictly...
Page 79 - The problem of the common origin of languages has no necessary connection with the problem of the common origin of mankind. . . . .The science of language and the science of Ethnology have both suffered most severely from being mixed up together. The classification of races and languages, should be quite independent of each other.
Page 43 - London. 13. We are told by Pyrard, that the Ouran-Outangs are found at Sierra Leona ; where they are strong and well formed, and so industrious, that, when properly trained and fed, they work like servants ; that, when ordered, they pound...