I see no reason whatever that justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from contrasting the monkeys with the... The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope - Page 27by Sophia Bledsoe HERRICK - 1883 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Weiss - Immortality - 1880 - 296 pages
...may declare, " I confess I feel much at ease about the superiority of mankind. I have such a marked contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have...fragments of soul and tatters of understanding that monkeys may really possess." But it is no longer a question of simple understanding. Here is Mr. Darwin's... | |
| Edmond de Pressensé - Ethics - 1883 - 572 pages
...animals. " I confess," exclaimed Sydney Smith, in one of his whimsical utterances, full of good sense, " I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." We can hardly better conclude this chapter than with Humboldt's words... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...without 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 understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes, perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change from... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 636 pages
...uneasy. The true superiority of man rests on very different grounds. ' I confess,' Sydney Smith writes, ' I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess.' The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 486 pages
...ever be uneasy. His true superiority rests on different grounds. * I confess, " Sydney Smith writes, " I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have ever seen—I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects,... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 454 pages
...ever be uneasy. His true superiority rests on different grounds. "I confess," Sydney Smith writes, "I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects,... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 530 pages
...ever be uneasy. His true superiority rests on different grounds. "I confess," Sydney Smith writes, "I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects,... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...confess," Sydney Smith writes, "I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority of ma&kind — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1903 - 1038 pages
...so much at ease about the superiority of mankind; have such a decided contempt for the imderstanding of every baboon I have ever seen ; I feel so sure...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding he may possess. Xor does the doctrine of evolution, after all, soberly taken, require that its adherents... | |
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