American Anthropologist, Volumen1American Anthropological Association, 1888 |
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... social philosopher . But in bending his bow on the skirmish line of a now forgotten controversy he often overshot his mark and wasted from his full quiver many an arrow which , like that of Acestes in the epic verse of Virgil , marked ...
... social philosopher . But in bending his bow on the skirmish line of a now forgotten controversy he often overshot his mark and wasted from his full quiver many an arrow which , like that of Acestes in the epic verse of Virgil , marked ...
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... social levels in favor of more abundant food - supplies within given limits , it is equally true that mere ease of subsistence , by its sole and single relaxation of the Malthusian pressure , does not necessarily lead to an increase of ...
... social levels in favor of more abundant food - supplies within given limits , it is equally true that mere ease of subsistence , by its sole and single relaxation of the Malthusian pressure , does not necessarily lead to an increase of ...
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... social progress ( in which cause perpetually becomes effect and again turns effect into cause ) , because Malthus ... social sphere , and it would have been better for Malthus if , in disengaging them from this complication for purposes ...
... social progress ( in which cause perpetually becomes effect and again turns effect into cause ) , because Malthus ... social sphere , and it would have been better for Malthus if , in disengaging them from this complication for purposes ...
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... social state in which it inheres and is not the sole deter- mining principle which actuates or arrests the general social move- There has been an advance in the social movement as com- pared with savagery , and pro tanto with this ...
... social state in which it inheres and is not the sole deter- mining principle which actuates or arrests the general social move- There has been an advance in the social movement as com- pared with savagery , and pro tanto with this ...
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... 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 and animal ...
... 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 and animal ...
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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.