American Anthropologist, Volumen1American Anthropological Association, 1888 |
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... seen from these two dates , separated by an interval of nearly thirty years , during which his oscillations of thought betrayed the manifold perturbations to which the body of his doctrine was exposed from the tug and strain of a ...
... seen from these two dates , separated by an interval of nearly thirty years , during which his oscillations of thought betrayed the manifold perturbations to which the body of his doctrine was exposed from the tug and strain of a ...
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... seen , therefore , that in the idea of Malthus the sliding sides of the box , which , figuratively speaking , comprise any given food - supply , do not expand or contract so much under the lessen- ing or increasing pinch of the physical ...
... seen , therefore , that in the idea of Malthus the sliding sides of the box , which , figuratively speaking , comprise any given food - supply , do not expand or contract so much under the lessen- ing or increasing pinch of the physical ...
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... seen there are , indeed , " checks which have repressed the superior power of population and kept its.effects on a level with the means of sub- sistence , " and it may be that these checks , as actually interposed between the two ...
... seen there are , indeed , " checks which have repressed the superior power of population and kept its.effects on a level with the means of sub- sistence , " and it may be that these checks , as actually interposed between the two ...
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... seen that the forces of a growing civilization are adequate to outweigh all the manifesta- tions of the repressive power of population which the world has thus far witnessed in each lower stage of human culture , and that for the future ...
... seen that the forces of a growing civilization are adequate to outweigh all the manifesta- tions of the repressive power of population which the world has thus far witnessed in each lower stage of human culture , and that for the future ...
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... seen that in the progress of civilization the dead weight of this pressure is abated , and that the pressure itself , though not abolished , is lifted into a higher range of spir- itual forces , where it works with the humanities and ...
... seen that in the progress of civilization the dead weight of this pressure is abated , and that the pressure itself , though not abolished , is lifted into a higher range of spir- itual forces , where it works with the humanities and ...
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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.