Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, Volumen3Trübner and Company, 1870 List of members appended to each volume. |
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Página 560 - seems to be that the urban type is physically degenerate." l Beddoe considers as proved that the stature of men in the large towns of Britain is lowered considerably below the standard of the nation and that such degradation is progressive and hereditary.2 The same has been observed by Ranke in Bavaria,3 Anutchin in Russia,4 and by many others.
Página 246 - ... orchestra executed an overture harsh enough to frighten Satan himself, the lay congregation beating time with their hands to the charivari of clanging instruments and ear-splitting voices. The diabolical concert over, the Grand Lama opened the Book of Exorcisms, which he rested on his knees. As he chanted one of the forms, he took from' the basin, from time to time, a handful of millet, which he threw east, west, north, and south, according to the Rubric. The tones of his voice, as he prayed,...
Página 168 - ... over her. In her family, in her court, in her kingdom, she remained equally mistress : The force of the tender passions was great over her, but the force of her mind was still superior ; and the combat which her victory visibly cost her, serves only to display the firmness of her resolution, and the loftiness of her ambitious sentiments.
Página 246 - ... acclamations of the crowd, seats himself upon the altar, and takes from his girdle a large knife, which he places upon his knees. At his feet, numerous lamas, ranged in a circle, commence the terrible invocations of this frightful ceremony. As the recitation of the prayers proceeds, you see the Bokte trembling in every limb, and gradually working himself up into phrenetic convulsions. The lamas, themselves, become excited; their voices are raised ; their song observes no order, and at last becomes...
Página 75 - XIV. In conclusion, I am content with having established, from archaeological and osteological data, at least to my own satisfaction, the existence in this island of the west, of two distinct races in preRoman times. One of these, I may repeat, which had lost its supremacy, at least in the south of the island, being the earlier and dolichocephalic, was probably Iberic ; the other being the later brachycephalic, was probably Gaulish, or in other words, Belgic.
Página 170 - ... earth, or to a period when there were causes in activity, distinct, in kind and degree, from those now constituting the economy of nature. These views were gradually modified, and some of them entirely abandoned in proportion as observations were multiplied, and the signs of former mutations more skilfully interpreted. Many appearances, which had for a long time been regarded as indicating mysterious and extraordinary agency, were finally...
Página 565 - But if we examine only a single race or reputed race at a time, we shall find, I believe, that wherever that race attains its maximum of physical development it rises highest in energy and moral vigour.
Página 171 - ... some philosophers to infer, that, during the ages contemplated in geology, there has never been any interruption to the agency of the same uniform laws of change. The same assemblage of general causes, they conceive, may have been sufficient to produce, by their various combinations, the endless diversity of effects, of which the shell of the earth has preserved the memorials ; and, consistently with these principles, the recurrence of analogous changes is expected by them in time to come.
Página 170 - ... changes of the earth's surface are referable. The first observers conceived the monuments which the geologist endeavours to decipher to relate to an original state of the earth, or to a period when there were causes in activity, distinct, in kind and degree, from those now constituting the economy of nature. These views were gradually modified, and some of them entirely abandoned in proportion as observations were multiplied, and the signs of former mutations were skilfully interpreted.
Página 74 - X. The geographer, Strabo, is another important witness for a great difference in the features and personal characteristics of the Iberians and Gauls. In the course of his fourth book, he twice tells us that the Iberians differed entirely in their bodily conformation from the Gauls, of both