 I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man: it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.  The Popular Science Monthly - Sayfa 7441890Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | James Wells - 1908 - 522 sayfa
...that I was a sort of a Christian.' He liked to place side by side a heathen and a Christian Fuegian. ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man. It seems yet wonderful to me when I think over all his (a Fuegian convert's) many good... | |
 | James Wells - 1909 - 526 sayfa
...that I was a sort of a Christian.' He liked to place side by side a heathen and a Christian Fuegian. ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man. It seems yet wonderful to me when I think over all his (a Fuegian convert's) many good... | |
 | 606 sayfa
...none of them did he write so despairingly as he did of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. He said: "It was, without exception, the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man ; it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal. The language of these people,... | |
 | Robert Boakes - 1984 - 298 sayfa
...with these three left him ill-prepared for his first sight of Fuegians who had never left the island: 'It was without exception the most curious and interesting...than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch in Fig. 1.1. Jean Lamarck man there is a greater power of improvement'.3 The contrast between Jeremy... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 sayfa
...gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I had ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was the difference, between savage and civi1ized man. It is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - 452 sayfa
...gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I had ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there is a greater power of improvement. The chief spokesman was old, and appeared... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - 450 sayfa
...of natives from the Tierra del Fuego, gesticulating on the shoreline, left an indelible impression: "I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man; it is greater than between a wild and a domestic animal, inasmuch as in man there is... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1994 - 528 sayfa
...and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent"; adding that "it was without exception the most curious and interesting...animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement."1 Darwin was not alone in finding a yawning gulf between savagery and civilization. Identified... | |
 | Roy M. MacLeod, Philip F. Rehbock - 1994 - 562 sayfa
...human habits and lifestyles around the world moved him the most. "I could not have believed," he wrote, "how wide was the difference, between savage and civilized...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there is a greater power of improvement."1 * Like FitzRoy, he followed the fortunes... | |
 | Nicholas Jardine, J. A. Secord, E. C. Spary - 1996 - 528 sayfa
...he was habituated to the Westernized young people on board ship; certainly his remarks suggest so: 'I could not have believed how wide was the difference...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there is a greater power of improvement' (vol. III, p. 228). 'Jemmy understood... | |
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