"Evolutionary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... still in the evolutionary process we may trace (as in chapter iv above) the divinization or deification of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like, from the personification of the collective emotion of the tribe towards these creatures. For people whose chief food was bear-meat, ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... his faculty of Discourse may be regarded as marking another distinct stage in the evolutionary movement—a stage, moreover, the operations of which throw light upon the whole nature of cerebral representations. The faculty of rational Discourse, as Max Mueller pointed out, is denominated in ...
— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip
... chairman of the Cordeliers Club, the most bloodthirsty, most Evolutionary club of France, had just ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... dropped, as he muttered, "Imitativeness—the mark of a mind of low evolutionary order, or of ..." his words faded ...
— The 4-D Doodler • Graph Waldeyer
... official translation, and the menace revealed in the Chinese original partly cloaked: for by transferring Eastern thoughts into Western moulds, things that are like nails in the hands of soft sensitive Oriental beings are made to appear to the steel-clad West as cold-blooded, evolutionary necessities which may be repellent but which are never cruel. The more the matter is studied the more convinced must the political student be that in this affair of the 18th January we have an international coup destined to become ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale
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