American Anthropologist, Volumen1American Anthropological Association, 1888 |
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... selections in social science , and so it suffers itself , in wide fields of political and economical activity , to fall an easy prey to the brute forces of that " natural selection " which perpetually expresses itself in the vegetable ...
... selections in social science , and so it suffers itself , in wide fields of political and economical activity , to fall an easy prey to the brute forces of that " natural selection " which perpetually expresses itself in the vegetable ...
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... selected by the central authority and held to be officers and servants of the chief ruler , to whom they were responsible for all their acts and from whom the authority for local government was derived and supported . Thus it was that a ...
... selected by the central authority and held to be officers and servants of the chief ruler , to whom they were responsible for all their acts and from whom the authority for local government was derived and supported . Thus it was that a ...
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... selected for all his linguistic work in this book the system . adopted for the written language of modern Greenland . If this alphabet is intended to be strictly phonetic , as the author states , the use of it in writing the Point ...
... selected for all his linguistic work in this book the system . adopted for the written language of modern Greenland . If this alphabet is intended to be strictly phonetic , as the author states , the use of it in writing the Point ...
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... nature , both organic and inorganic , as a modifier . Henceforth , natural selection affected only mental and Apr. 1888. ] DISCONTINUITIES IN NATURE'S METHODS . 135 Discontinuities in Nature's Methods By H H BATES......-
... nature , both organic and inorganic , as a modifier . Henceforth , natural selection affected only mental and Apr. 1888. ] DISCONTINUITIES IN NATURE'S METHODS . 135 Discontinuities in Nature's Methods By H H BATES......-
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... selection . He developed cutting tools at one end and a trowel at the other , and the limit of progress was attained . The feline carnivora , type of the militant principle , evolved highly efficient weapons at all ex- tremities , and ...
... selection . He developed cutting tools at one end and a trowel at the other , and the limit of progress was attained . The feline carnivora , type of the militant principle , evolved highly efficient weapons at all ex- tremities , and ...
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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.