 | 1846 - 536 pagina’s
...sight in his native haunt of a barbarian — of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's miud hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could...like these? — men, whose very signs and expressions arc less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated animals, nor yet appear to boast of human... | |
 | 1866 - 736 pagina’s
...''certainly no European ever cleared his throat with so many hoarse, guttural, and clicking sounds '4 — " One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have boon men like these ? men whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 852 pagina’s
...first condition of man is indicated in his reflections on the Fuegians, whom he carefully studied. " One's mind hurries back over past centuries and then asks, Could our progenitors have been such as these? Men whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 pagina’s
...the first sight in his native haunt of a barbarian, — of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then...animals ; men, who do not possess the instinct of thosf animals, nor yet appear to boast of human reason, or at least of arts consequent on that reason.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 254 pagina’s
...the first sight, in his native haunt, of a barbarian — of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, Could our forefathers have been men like these? — men whose very TIERRA DEL FUEGO. signs and expressions are... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pagina’s
...the first sight in his native haunt of a real barbarian, of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have been such as these ? Men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 pagina’s
...the first sight in his native haunt of a barbarian, — of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our pro genitors have been men like these? — men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible... | |
 | Marion Daniel Shutter - 1900 - 318 pagina’s
...lowest known savages such as the Fuegians, " whose very signs and expressions," according to Mr. Darwin, "are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated animals, men who do not possess the instincts of those animals, nor yet to boast of human reason, or at least of the arts consequent on... | |
 | Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson - 1907 - 328 pagina’s
...ape. Darwin, describing the Fuegians, who are among the very lowest forms of savages, says : "Their very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated animal. They are men who do not possess the instinct of those animals, nor yet appear to boast of human... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 pagina’s
...than the first sight in his native haunt of a barbarian,—of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have been men like these?—men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated... | |
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Of individual objects, perhaps nothing is more certain to create astonishment than the first sight in his native haunt of a barbarian, — of man in his lowest and most savage state. 
