 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1861 - 422 pages
...angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is only the outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 452 pages
...dvafii^vnl £im olov av\\oyiofi6c nc). Asa Grey, Natural Selection possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is only the outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge... | |
 | Essays - 1862 - 560 pages
...vi. ' Wiseman, " Connection between Science and Revealed Eeligion." * " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection •will ever distil...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos ; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - Christian life - 1862 - 448 pages
...un* Wiseman, " Connection between Science and Revealed Religion." f " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection will ever distil significant...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | Christian life - 1862 - 556 pages
...vi. v Wiseman, "Connection between Science and Revealed Religion." i " Language is our Rubicon. ... No process of natural selection will ever distil significant...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. In Greek, language is logos ; but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is only the outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 452 pages
...ffvXXoyiayidc "": )• Asa Grey, Natural Selection .,,'•., p. 58, note. potability that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language, however, is only the outward sign. We may point to it in our arguments, we may challenge... | |
 | Frederic Bateman - 1870 - 266 pages
...fold of the brain or an angle of the skull ; it is the one great barrier between the brute and man ; it admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. Language is our Rubicon and no brute will dare to pass it." Without entering into the question of whether... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 588 pages
...angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts." No scholar, so far as I know, has ever controverted any of these statements. But when Evolutionism... | |
 | Sir Frederick Bateman - Evolution - 1877 - 262 pages
...believe with Max Mtiller, that " speech is the one great barrier between the brute and man, and that no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of 112 WANT OF CONNECTION beasts. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to pass it." I must... | |
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... beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words... 
