 | 1861 - 512 páginas
...intellect may be unhesitatingly applied. Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word....discover the rudiments at least of all human faculties in apes, and who would fain keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant... | |
 | 1861 - 516 páginas
...intellect may be unhesitatingly applied. Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word....discover the rudiments at least of all human faculties in apes, and who would fain keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 páginas
...world ? I answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Alan speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter of fact answer to those who speak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at least... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 páginas
...brute world? I answer without hesitation: the one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word....discover the rudiments at least of all human faculties in apes, and who would fain keep open the * Flourens, De la Raison, p. 51. f To allow that 'brutes have... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 páginas
...possibility of a transition between man and the brute. He utterly scouts the idea. "Man speaks," he says, "and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is...is our matter-offact answer to those who speak of such development as if it were established beyond all contradiction, who tli In Ic they discover the... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 páginas
...answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between brute and man is language. Man speaks — language is our rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. Language is the outward sign and realization of that inward faculty which is called abstraction," but... | |
 | David Page - 1867 - 238 páginas
...brute-world ? I answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute has ever crossed it." To all such averments as the preceding, however plausibly or decidedly put, there... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1867 - 518 páginas
...have been brought to utter many words. " To those who speak of development," adds Professor Miiller, " who think they discover the rudiments at least of all human faculties in apes, and who would fain keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1868 - 394 páginas
...answer, without hesitation, the one great barrier between the brute and the man is language. Man speaks; no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will ever dare to cross it," &c. thus shows how language has gained its greatest triumphs : — " The idea... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1869 - 430 páginas
...world ? I answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word....Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter of fact answer to those who •peak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at... | |
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Where, then, is the difference between brute and man ? What is it that man can do, and of which we find no signs, no rudiments, in the whole brute world ? I answer without hesitation : The one great barrier between the brute and man is language. Man speaks,... 
