 | 1870 - 624 pages
...foundation than that of Aurignac. The famous skull from Engis, discovered by Dr. Schmerling, ' and which might have belonged to a philosopher, ' or might...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage,' * is perhaps the strongest case in favour of the skull being of the same antiquity as the extinct Mammalia.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 782 pages
...There is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." The skulls taken out at Bruniquel were well developed, and equal to those of Celtic stock now. Similar... | |
 | Royal Geological Society of Cornwall - 1841 - 492 pages
...anatomists to the ordinary European race, as Professor Huxley describes it — " a fair average human skull which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brain of a savage." The skull from Neanderthal, on the olher hand, presents such a peculiarity of form... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1871 - 580 pages
...probably contemporary with the mammoth and the cave bear, has been pronounced by Professor Huxley to be " a fair average skull, which might have belonged to...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." But the brains of any ape would have lain in a corner of it, and left a large vacancy. If the ape passed... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...Natural History Review,' i. 156. f Professor Huxley elsewhere describes it as ' a fair average ' human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.' (Man's Place in Nature, p. 156.) Professor Huxley says: — 'The fact that the skulls of one of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Apes - 1863 - 204 pages
...there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The case of the Neanderthal skull is very different. Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1863 - 654 pages
...there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the brains of a thoughtless savage. Another human skull was discovered, in 1857, in the Neanderthal valley,... | |
 | Medicine - 1864 - 594 pages
...there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." (Huxlej, p. 156.) With respect to the " Neanderthal skull," it has been observed by Dr. Hermann von... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1864 - 876 pages
...some European crania ; that there is no mark of degradation about it ; that it is a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The skull with which I am going to compare it was sent to the Anatomical Museum of the University of... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 848 pages
...some European crania ; that there is no mark of degradation about it ; that it is a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. TUBNEB on the Fossil Skull Controversy. 251 band of marly sand and small flints, dividing, at an angle... | |
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And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. 
