The Natural History of Man And the Rise And Progress of Philosophy. a Series of Lectures
The book The Natural History of Man And the Rise And Progress of Philosophy. a Series of Lectures was written by author Kinmont, Alexander, 1799-1838 Here you can read free online of The Natural History of Man And the Rise And Progress of Philosophy. a Series of Lectures book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Natural History of Man And the Rise And Progress of Philosophy. a Series of Lectures a good or bad book?
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— I must confess there is reason in what you say, and I acknowledge that this evil is incident to the popular views of modern discoveries. St. Augustine. — And it will receive -the best illustration from your own science of anatomy and physiology. We preachers of the fifth century, whose fund of natural knowledge was exceedingly scanty, indulged at least a feeling of reverence and awe when wo contemjjlatcd the works of nature, and we called them the works of God. LECTURE IV. 113 And when we spo...ke of man, it was as the image of God, for we had not yet learned from anatomy, this material science, to think of man as an image' of the animals. Cuvier.— Thon you viewed him generally, not par- ticularly ? St. Augustine. — True, we did so. Cuvier. — But what think you, thfen, of the comparison now more common, I mean that to which you refer, that man wears the image of animated nature, and is at the head of the scale, the supreme animal, who, " with front serene, governs the rest?" St.
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