Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race: Lectures and DissertationsTrübner & Company, 1880 - 156 страници |
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... idea of the condition of mankind in their days , but inversely to gain that knowledge of the state of antiquity which was requisite for the purpose of understanding the authors . Even down to the last century Homer was judged by the ...
... idea of the condition of mankind in their days , but inversely to gain that knowledge of the state of antiquity which was requisite for the purpose of understanding the authors . Even down to the last century Homer was judged by the ...
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... idea , implying an analogous activity , but such as is carried on with natural organs . What follows thence ? I believe nothing but that , as in modern times we have in writing passed from the bird's feather to the metallic pen , as in ...
... idea , implying an analogous activity , but such as is carried on with natural organs . What follows thence ? I believe nothing but that , as in modern times we have in writing passed from the bird's feather to the metallic pen , as in ...
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... ideas , the dependence on the words is more particularly obvious . Thus the numbers , for instance , cannot possibly be separated from the nume- rals . Mere sight scarcely shows the difference between nine and ten . A child that cannot ...
... ideas , the dependence on the words is more particularly obvious . Thus the numbers , for instance , cannot possibly be separated from the nume- rals . Mere sight scarcely shows the difference between nine and ten . A child that cannot ...
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... idea of the entanglement of the boughs of the bush or of trees with dense foliage is found so intimately allied with the plaiting of plants that it becomes probable this natural plaiting may have served the artistic activity of man as a ...
... idea of the entanglement of the boughs of the bush or of trees with dense foliage is found so intimately allied with the plaiting of plants that it becomes probable this natural plaiting may have served the artistic activity of man as a ...
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... idea of such work must have preceded the name ; e.g. , if a cutting tool is designated as something cutting , the idea of cutting seems thereby to be presupposed . But we know that all these words originally denoted ac- tivities which ...
... idea of such work must have preceded the name ; e.g. , if a cutting tool is designated as something cutting , the idea of cutting seems thereby to be presupposed . But we know that all these words originally denoted ac- tivities which ...
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