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" 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 27
by Sophia Bledsoe HERRICK - 1883 - 248 pages
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The Immortal Life

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...
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A Study of Origins: Or, the Problems of Knowledge, of Being, and of Duty

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...
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Wit and Wisdom: A Selection of the Most Memorable Passages in His Writings ...

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...
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The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the ..., Volume 1

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...
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the ..., Volume 8

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...
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Orations: Greek orators

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,...
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Orators of continental Europe

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,...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 20

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,...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 20

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,...
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The Methodist Review, Volume 63; Volume 85

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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