Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 pagini |
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... civilisation . We have here the continuous force which binds age to age , which enables each to begin with some improvement on the last , if the last did itself improve ; which makes each civilisation not a set of detached dots , but a ...
... civilisation . We have here the continuous force which binds age to age , which enables each to begin with some improvement on the last , if the last did itself improve ; which makes each civilisation not a set of detached dots , but a ...
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... civilisation . History catches man as he emerges from the patriarchal state : ethnology shows how he lived , grew , and improved in that state . The conclusive arguments against the imagined original civilisation are indeed plain to ...
... civilisation . History catches man as he emerges from the patriarchal state : ethnology shows how he lived , grew , and improved in that state . The conclusive arguments against the imagined original civilisation are indeed plain to ...
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... civilisation , approaching it by various sides , and falling short of it in various par- ticulars , but the moment they see the real thing they know how to use it as well , or better , than civilised man . The South American uses the ...
... civilisation , approaching it by various sides , and falling short of it in various par- ticulars , but the moment they see the real thing they know how to use it as well , or better , than civilised man . The South American uses the ...
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... civilisation ? Not only can we not find them , but zoological science tells us that they never existed , for the ' feebly pronounced , ' the in- effectual , marsupials of Australia and New Zealand could never have survived a competition ...
... civilisation ? Not only can we not find them , but zoological science tells us that they never existed , for the ' feebly pronounced , ' the in- effectual , marsupials of Australia and New Zealand could never have survived a competition ...
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... Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and , much as that means ...
... Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and , much as that means ...
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