 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
 | Charles Darwin - 1997 - 500 sayfa
...one of the four natives who were present advanced to receive us, and began to shout most vehemendy, wishing to direct us where to land. When we were on...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... | |
 | Judith K. Major - 1997 - 268 sayfa
...Tierra del Fuego and found the inhabitants a "curious and interesting spectacle"; he could not believe "how wide was the difference between savage and civilized...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal." Downing looked to America's far west for an example of a savage to use in comparison, not with a domesticated... | |
 | Ter Ellingson - 2001 - 468 sayfa
...already familiar to us; it is part of Darwin's description of the natives of Tierra del Fuego (fig. 24): I could not have believed how wide was the difference...between savage and civilized man. It is greater than that between a wild and a domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.... | |
 | Lucy Hartley - 2005 - 264 sayfa
...faces painted with red and black stripes, and they were also skilled mimics. 'I could not', he wrote, 'have believed how wide was the difference, between savage and civilized man. It was greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there is a greater power... | |
 | Steve Jones - 2005 - 276 sayfa
...changed since Darwin's visit to Tierra del Fuego, five hundred miles to the south, thirty years before ("I could not have believed how wide was the difference...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal . . . Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures"). The Welsh... | |
 | Helen Small, Trudi Tate - 2003 - 274 sayfa
...in their native context: '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 civilised man. It is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, in as much as in man there... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - 2004 - 204 sayfa
...with some of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. "It was," he tells us, "without exception the most curious and interesting...animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of achievement."21 These particular Fuegians were tall and possessed of some primitive garments. The next... | |
 | Richard Ligato, Amanda Bejerano-Ligato - 2005 - 308 sayfa
...his travels in South America Darwin first encountered the residents of Tierra del Fuego, and wrote, "I could not have believed how wide was the difference...greater than between a wild and domesticated animal". He was fascinated with the Fuegians' ability to withstand the frigid cold while practically unclothed... | |
 | Magdalena Perkowska - 2008 - 380 sayfa
...animal más bien que al humano25. Por el otro, Guevara señala que la condición salvaje de los 25 "I could not have believed how wide was the difference...savage and civilized man : it is greater than between wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man "dueños de Cabo de Hornos" (271) activa el discurso... | |
 | David Amigoni - 2007 - 12 sayfa
...figures that generated complex processes of thought as the species question was implicitly broached. '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... | |
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