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" I confess I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind, — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in... "
The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope - Page 27
by Sophia Bledsoe HERRICK - 1883 - 248 pages
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Man; Or, The Old and New Philosophy ...

Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...mankind — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen — I feel so sure that the blue ape without...painting, and music — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may...
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Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and Suggestive ...

Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...mankind, — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without...painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may...
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Man: a Story of Light and Darkness

Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...development did an anthropoid creature acquire a soul? t " I feel so sure," said the late Sydney Smith, " that the blue ape without a tail will never rival...painting, and music, that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may...
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The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish

Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1869 - 304 pages
...mankind, — -I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without...painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever, why justice may not be done to Ihe few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding, which they...
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The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: A Selection of the Most ...

Sydney Smith - 1869 - 424 pages
...• — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without...painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever, why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul, and tatters of under260 INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS....
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Heads and tales; or, Anecdotes and stories of quadrupeds and other beasts

Adam White - 1870 - 378 pages
...mankind, — I have suelj a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure that the blue ape without...painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding, which they...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tragedie of Cymbeline. 1913

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1913 - 558 pages
...'contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — 'I feel so sure that the blue ape with a tail will never rival us in poetry, 'painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice 'may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of under'standing which they...
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Blending lights; or, The relations of natural science, archæology, and ...

William Fraser - Bible and science - 1873 - 406 pages
...marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen, — I feel so sure the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in...painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few tatters of understanding which they may really possess." IV....
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Blending Lights; Or, The Relations of Natural Science, Archaeology, and ...

William Fraser - Bible and science - 1875 - 452 pages
...marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen — I feel so sure the blue ape without ± a tail will never rival us...painting, and music — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few tatters of understanding which they may really possess." IV....
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Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ...

Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...And if we cannot educate them, how did they educate one another? Sydney Smith humorously says — " I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will...painting, and music, that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may...
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