The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 - Science |
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... brain was developed by natural selection from the brute brain . The size of the human brain is , in comparison with that of all other animals , enor- mous . This superiority in magnitude , accompanied as it is by certain other less ...
... brain was developed by natural selection from the brute brain . The size of the human brain is , in comparison with that of all other animals , enor- mous . This superiority in magnitude , accompanied as it is by certain other less ...
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... brain that has yet been measured contains 34 cubic inches . Probably mental power depends on some other conditions besides the mere size of the brain , and therefore we should not be justified in saying that a creature with 35 inches of ...
... brain that has yet been measured contains 34 cubic inches . Probably mental power depends on some other conditions besides the mere size of the brain , and therefore we should not be justified in saying that a creature with 35 inches of ...
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... brain in the anthropoid apes , in the savage , and in civilised man respectively , may be represented by the figures 10 , 26 , and 32. Is this a true representation of the mental conditions of the three ? Is the difference between the ...
... brain in the anthropoid apes , in the savage , and in civilised man respectively , may be represented by the figures 10 , 26 , and 32. Is this a true representation of the mental conditions of the three ? Is the difference between the ...
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... brain provides a dormant reservoir of intellectual power , out of which every need , as it arises , may be met by a corre- sponding contrivance of supply . But all these capacities have a reference to the future , and not to the present ...
... brain provides a dormant reservoir of intellectual power , out of which every need , as it arises , may be met by a corre- sponding contrivance of supply . But all these capacities have a reference to the future , and not to the present ...
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... entitled " The Three Barriers . " They were the Brain , the Breast , and the Backbone - the symbols of Wisdom , Love , and Power - which he maintained to constitute NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT TO DEVELOPMENT OF MAN . 23.
... entitled " The Three Barriers . " They were the Brain , the Breast , and the Backbone - the symbols of Wisdom , Love , and Power - which he maintained to constitute NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT TO DEVELOPMENT OF MAN . 23.
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...