Continuation of the Review of "Nott and Gliddon's Types of Mankind"., Issue 11James, Williams and Gitsinger, 1850 - 19 pages |
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Page 20 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 3 - The unity of the human species is demonstrated by the constancy of those osteological and dental characters to which the attention is more particularly directed in the investigation of the corresponding characters in the higher Quadrumana. Man is the sole species of his genus — the sole representative of his order...
Page 21 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth...
Page 42 - Our errors were, however, natural, and of the same kind which led many excellent observers of a former century to refer all the secondary formations of geology to the Noachian deluge.
Page 44 - Moses ; and it is now admitted by all competent persons, that the formation, even of those strata which are nearest the surface, must have occupied vast periods, — probably millions of years, — in arriving at their present state.
Page 43 - We cannot represent to ourselves the idea of their being brought into one small spot, from the polar regions, the torrid zone, and all the other climates of Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia, and the thousands of Islands; their preservation and provision, and the final disposal of them; without bringing up the idea of miiacles more stupendous than any that are recorded in Scripture, even what appear appalling in comparison.
Page 7 - Consequently, the mere fact that the several races of mankind produce with each other a more or less fertile progeny, constitutes, in itself, no proof of the unity of the human species.
Page 28 - ... natural limitation of a particular association of animals and plants, — shows most unequivocally the intimate relation existing between mankind and the animal kingdom, in their adaptation to the physical world. The Arctic race of men, covering the treeless region near the arctics, in Europe, Asia, and America, is circumscribed in the three continents within limits very similar to those occupied by that particular combination of animals which are peculiar to the same tracts of land and sea.
Page 12 - IndoGermanic languages .compared with one another. Nobody, for instance, would suppose that because the notes of the different species of thrushes, inhabiting different parts of the world, bear the closest affinity to one another, these birds must all have a common origin ; and yet, with reference to man, philologists still look upon the affinities of languages as affording direct evidence of such a community of origin, among the races, even though they have already discovered the most essential...
Page 10 - To those who have studied the phraseology of Scripture, there is no rule of interpretation more certain than this, that universal terms are often used to signify only a very large amount in number or quantity.