 | Richard Whately - Economics - 1847 - 344 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. " Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree, &c. &c. If we believe, that in this deplorable condition, he could have found means to sustain life,... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. " Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree, &c. &c. If we believe, that in this deplorable condition, he could have found means to sustain life,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1868 - 904 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ? " &c. Exactly the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certaiiily... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - Anthropology - 1868 - 690 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ?" &c., ifcc. Just the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certainly... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1868 - 896 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have teen created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ? '' &c. Exactly the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certainly... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Civilization - 1871 - 482 pages
...created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers. Fiow long must it have been before he could have known...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ! ' &c. &c. Exactly the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certainly... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1873 - 518 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree,' &c., &c. Exactly the same, however, [adds Sir John] might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Civilization - 1875 - 646 pages
...diate and urgent wants. Supposing him to have been created, ' or to have started into being one knows not how, in the full ' strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or ' how to apply them to climb the tree ! ' &c. &c. Exactly the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certainly... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1868 - 920 pages
...immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers,...his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ? " &c. Exactly the same, however, might be said of the gorilla or the chimpanzee, which certainly... | |
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cast out an orphan of nature, naked and helpless, into the savage forest, must have perished before he could have learned how to supply his most immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not... 