Smith and the Pharaohs, And Other Tales - Sir H Rider Haggard - Bücher - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781727494020 - 7. November 2018
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Smith and the Pharaohs, And Other Tales

Sir H Rider Haggard

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Smith and the Pharaohs, And Other Tales

Scientists, or some scientists-for occasionally one learned person differs from other learned persons-tell us they know all that is worth knowing about man, which statement, of course, includes woman. They trace him from his remotest origin; they show us how his bones changed and his shape modified, also how, under the influence of his needs and passions, his intelligence developed from something very humble. They demonstrate conclusively that there is nothing in man which the dissecting-table will not explain; that his aspirations towards another life have their root in the fear of death, or, say others of them, in that of earthquake or thunder; that his affinities with the past are merely inherited from remote ancestors who lived in that past, perhaps a million years ago; and that everything noble about him is but the fruit of expediency or of a veneer of civilisation, while everything base must be attributed to the instincts of his dominant and primeval nature. Man, in short, is an animal who, like every other animal, is finally subdued by his environment and takes his colour from his surroundings, as cattle do from the red soil of Devon. Such are the facts, they (or some of them) declare; all the rest is rubbish.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 7. November 2018
ISBN13 9781727494020
Verlag Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl 246
Maße 152 × 229 × 13 mm   ·   335 g
Sprache Englisch  

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