So long as physiologists continued to believe that Man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their assent from the doctrine of a unity of origin of so many distinct races; but the difficulty becomes... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 129edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
| Charles Loring Brace - Ethnology - 1863 - 500 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...temperature, or food, or danger, or ways of living." (Lyell, Ant. of Man, p. 383.) So, again, we find the Mexicans in their comparatively cool districts,... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...the lapse of time during which different communities ma}' have spread slowly, and become isolated, each exposed for ages to a peculiar set of conditions,... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - Ethnology - 1863 - 562 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...assent from the doctrine of a unity of origin of so It may be thought that on this view we do not make enough of the direct effect of climate in forming... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - Ethnology - 1869 - 462 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...temperature, or food, or danger, or ways of living." (Lyell, Ant. of Man, p. 386.) So, again, we find the Mexicans in their comparatively cool districts,... | |
| Literature - 1871 - 690 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe' that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their assent from the doctrine of. a unity 6f origin of so many distinct races." f Which alternative shall we adopt — reject the Mosaic chronology,... | |
| John Wells Foster - History - 1874 - 434 pages
...Charles, " as physiologists continue to believe that men had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...temperature, or food, or danger, or ways of living. The law of the geometrical rate of the increase of population, which causes it always to press hard... | |
| rev. James Brodie - 1875 - 300 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed on the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...doctrine of a unity of origin of so many distinct races.' He afterwards speaks of tribes in a primitive state of barbarism being kept in ' complete isolation... | |
| George Trumbull Ladd - Bible - 1883 - 794 pages
...long as physiologists continued to believe that man had not existed upon the earth above six thousand years, they might, with good reason, withhold their...doctrine of a unity of origin of so many distinct races." 1 The view of this author is undoubtedly the one prevalent among those competent to form an opinion.2... | |
| John Wells Foster - History - 1887 - 432 pages
...physiologists continue to believe that men had not existed on the earth above six thousand j"ears, they might, with good reason, withhold their assent...temperature, or food, or danger, or ways of living. The law of the geometrical rate of the increase of population, which causes it always to press hard... | |
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