 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 oldal
...presumed to be the properties of our personal activity, to be henceforward referred to general laws ? Do our " thoughts, wills, and actions accord with laws...acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals P" 1 The observation of religious instincts, of ideals unrealized, That typo of perfect in his mind... | |
 | John Richard Turner Eaton - 1879 - 420 oldal
...presumed to be the properties of our personal activity, to be henceforward referred to general laws ? Do our " thoughts, wills, and actions accord with laws...acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals ?'n The observation of religious instincts, of ideals unrealized, That type of perfect in his mind... | |
 | John Livingston Nevius - 1894 - 540 oldal
...large is scarcely prepared to accept the general study of human life as a branch of natural science nor to carry out in a large sense the poet's injunction...acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals, "t * Origin of Primitive Superstitions, Introduction, p. 13. t "Primitive Culture." vul. 2, p. 131.... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1895 - 620 oldal
...Terrain, hört sich der gleiche Protest wiederholt, der am Anfang des Kampfes laut geworden war. iTo many educated minds, there seems something presumptuous...acids and bases and the growth of plants and animals« (1871), in Tylor's Formulirung eines weiterhin leitenden Prinzips (cf. »Der Mensch in der Geschichte«,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903 - 536 oldal
...thoughts, wills, and '- actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern ( the motion of wavos, the combination of acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals. The main reasons of thin state of the popular judgment are not far to seek. There are many who would willingly accept a... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1915 - 556 oldal
...psychic evolution of humanity began to be decisively superseded. In 1871 Tylor could still say that " to many educated minds there seems something presumptuous...combination of acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals."8 But the old repulsion had already been profoundly impaired by biological and social science... | |
 | J. W. Burrow, Professor of Intellectual History J W Burrow - 1966 - 326 oldal
...for his enthusiastic acceptance of this possibility, and his confidence that anthropology would show that 'the history of mankind is part and parcel of...combination of acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals'.2 To some extent, we have already attempted an answer in discussing the arguments and assumptions... | |
 | George W. Stocking - 1982 - 409 oldal
...roots in primitive savagery. "The history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature," and "our thoughts, wills, and actions accord with laws...and bases, and the growth of plants and animals." It was not accidental to Tylor's purpose that over half the book was devoted to the evolution of religious... | |
 | T. Ingold - 1986 - 460 oldal
...Thus the various 'grades' of culture were supposed to unfold in conformity with absolute developmental laws 'as definite as those which govern the motion...acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals' (1871, I:2). Looking around the world, one could observe the cultural edifice at various stages of... | |
 | Richard J. Helmstadter - 1990 - 422 oldal
...what has gone before it'.19 Indeed, although with less belligerence, Tylor sounds rather like Tyndall: 'To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous...combination of acids and bases, and the growth of plants and animals.'20 Taking too literally the scientific ideal of 'law', 'regularity', and measurement, Tylor... | |
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To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature, that our thoughts, wills, and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion... 
