Aspects of Social Evolution: First Series: TemperamentsSmith, Elder, 1904 - 297페이지 |
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Acromegaly activity adapted animal appear artist aspect beauty become bodily body capacity cell changes character characteristics Charles Darwin civilisation climatic co-education coarse complex considered Crown 8vo definite delicately disease emotional entoderm environment evidence evolution existence face fact favour feelings GEORGE HENRY LEWES germinal gnomy greater growing growth habits Havelock Ellis healthily healthy heredity human ideals importance increasing individual industrial influence intellectual labour less living Lloyd Morgan lower manly and womanly masculine MATTHEW ARNOLD ment mental mind modern modified nation natural selection navvy necessary organisation physical physiognomy points portion present primitive feature principle progressive protoplasm race realise relation reproduction response result scientific scum sexual Sir LESLIE STEPHEN social somatic somatic response specialisation structure surroundings survive Syphilis temperamental feature temperaments tend tendency theory tion tissue variability variations vidual whole organism woman women
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275 페이지 - Even the best of modern civilization appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express the opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family ; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over Nature, which is its consequence, and the wealth which follows upon that dominion, are to make no difference...
21 페이지 - She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
122 페이지 - It is highly probable that the Teutonic race of northern Europe is merely a variety of this primitive long-headed type of the stone age; both its distinctive blondness and its remarkable stature having been acquired in the relative isolation of Scandinavia through the modifying influences of environment and of artificial selection.
202 페이지 - ... just the same look about him three years ago, and he robbed me. This is one great distinction of the female intellect ; it walks directly and unconsciously, by more delicate insight and a more refined and more trusted intuition, to an end to which men's minds grope carefully and ploddingly along. Women have exercised a most beneficial influence in softening the hard and untruthful outline which knowledge is apt to assume in the hands of direct scientific observers and experimenters : they have...
200 페이지 - ... one of direct mental insight. Whatever range, however, we may ascribe to this latter faculty, it still remains certain that women are incessant and rapid generalisers, and also often hasty and rash ones. The nature of their imagination tends in the same direction. It is not perhaps so comprehensive as that of man ; it has not the same power of at once presenting a subject vividly, and holding it steadily and continuously before the mind ; it is not perhaps so searching : but it is much quicker...