Man's place in nature and other anthropological essays.
"I am very well aware that the old are prone to regard their early performances with much more interest than their contemporaries of a younger generation are likely to take in them; moreover, I freely admit that my younger contemporaries might employ their time better than in perusing the three...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Hurst & Co. Publishers,
1863.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "I am very well aware that the old are prone to regard their early performances with much more interest than their contemporaries of a younger generation are likely to take in them; moreover, I freely admit that my younger contemporaries might employ their time better than in perusing the three essays, written thirty-two years ago, which occupy the first place in this volume. This confession is the more needful, inasmuch as all the premises of the argument set forth in " Man's Place in Nature" and most of the conclusions deduced from them, are now to be met with among other well-established and, indeed, elementary truths, in the text-books"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) Also issued in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |