American Anthropologist, Volumen1American Anthropological Association, 1888 |
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... society there have been some nations where , from ignorance and want of foresight , the laboring classes have lived very miserably , and both the food and the population have been nearly stationary long before the resources of the soil ...
... society there have been some nations where , from ignorance and want of foresight , the laboring classes have lived very miserably , and both the food and the population have been nearly stationary long before the resources of the soil ...
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... society , its natural and necessary effects had been almost totally overlooked until he made them an object of special study . They were overlooked because they had been and still are complicated with so many other causes and effects in ...
... society , its natural and necessary effects had been almost totally overlooked until he made them an object of special study . They were overlooked because they had been and still are complicated with so many other causes and effects in ...
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... society , with its thousand actions , reactions , and interactions , besides those of population and of food - supply . In every existing stage of culture which the world has yet seen there are , indeed , " checks which have repressed ...
... society , with its thousand actions , reactions , and interactions , besides those of population and of food - supply . In every existing stage of culture which the world has yet seen there are , indeed , " checks which have repressed ...
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... society in perpetual oscillation as the secret of social security and of social progress . By plagues and by epidemics , by wars and by famines , nature seemed , in the eye of Malthus , to be proclaiming that population * Malthus , book ...
... society in perpetual oscillation as the secret of social security and of social progress . By plagues and by epidemics , by wars and by famines , nature seemed , in the eye of Malthus , to be proclaiming that population * Malthus , book ...
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... society , we should not wonder that Malthus taught as a philosophy what all men and all nations have been so ready to practice as a make - shift and expedient , instead of laying a new ex- action on their positive science of government ...
... society , we should not wonder that Malthus taught as a philosophy what all men and all nations have been so ready to practice as a make - shift and expedient , instead of laying a new ex- action on their positive science of government ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adostcisde American animal Anthropological appear barbarism bikic black wand opens blackberry wine blue wand opens body Chane-abal character Chiapas civilization clepsydra climbs up returning Comitan competition copper Ctesibius culture customs daqonikade binakade developed dialects earth endeavor Eskimos evolution fact fingers go out returning Greenland hand hatchets human Indians indicated invention Iroquoian Iroquois jadeite known labor Lake Lake Superior language living lodge Malthus mankind means Mede Mede'win Medicine Lodge mountains Nagaynezgani nations natives natural selection nature Navajo nephrite objects observed Ojibwa organization origin persons plants Point Barrow population Prof progress race REGULAR MEETING represents ring river Roman sake he arrives savage savagery Siberia side thereof social Society stone street N. W. struggle for existence Thobajischeni THOMAS HAMPSON time-keeper tion tobacco tribes vocabulary water clock word Nagenezgani
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Página 60 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 107 - Every child is born destitute of things possessed in manhood which distinguish him from the lower animals. Of all industries he is artless; of all institutions he is lawless; of all languages he is speechless; of all philosophies he is opinionless; of all reasoning he is thoughtless; but arts, institutions, languages, opinions and mentations he acquires as the years go by from childhood to manhood. In all these respects the new-born babe is hardly the peer of the new-born beast; but as the years...
Página 308 - Every one is now familiar with the general nature of animal economics. It is the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence.
Página 4 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 107 - ... the great classes of activities, until the distance by which he is separated from the brute is so great that his realm of existence is in another kingdom of nature.1 Human progress is possible because of the long period of infancy of the human being.
Página 15 - Every obstruction to a free exchange is born of the same narrow despotic spirit which planted castles upon the Rhine to plunder peaceful commerce. Every obstruction to commerce is a tax upon consumption ; every facility to a free exchange cheapens commodities, increases trade and production, and promotes civilization.
Página 224 - Pointe, and here, long before the pale face appeared among them, it was practiced in its purest and most original form. Many of our fathers lived the full term of life granted to mankind by the Great Spirit, and the forms of many old people were mingled with each rising generation. This, my grandson, is the meaning of the words you did not understand; they have been repeated to us by our fathers for many generations.
Página 42 - ... failed to warn him of the hour — to dine. Then sturdy Romans sauntered through the Forum. Fat, hale, content ; for trouble ne'er came o'er them. But now these cursed dials show their faces, All over Rome, in streets and public places; And men, to know the hour, the cold stone question, That lias no heart, no stomach, no digestion.
Página 83 - The Finger on which this Ring is to be worn is the fourth Finger of the left hand, next unto the little Finger ; because by the received Opinion of the Learned and Experienced in Ripping up, and anatomizing...
Página 295 - Chickamy, chickamy, cramery, crow, I went to the well to wash my toe, When I came back my chicken was gone. Pausing before the fire-builder, the mother asks, in continuation of the song, "What time is it, old witch?" The witch replies, "One o'clock.