Man; or, the Old and New Philosophy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lastly, has not our immortal bard portrayed him with equal truth, while he seemingly alludes to the relationship between Pithecus and Homo, which we have now conclusively shown must and does exist, however much prejudiced mortals may say to the contrary: ? 0, but man, proud man Brest in a little brief...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lastly, has not our immortal bard portrayed him with equal truth, while he seemingly alludes to the relationship between Pithecus and Homo, which we have now conclusively shown must and does exist, however much prejudiced mortals may say to the contrary: ? 0, but man, proud man Brest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's moat assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 1 'lays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. Shatspeare, Measure for Measure. So much for the Origin Of Man. chapter{{Section 462 CHAPTER II. Ulan as a Whether man originally sprung from what is familiarly termed, his Mother Earth, or from a more ancient ancestry, viz., from nothing, is immaterial. Indisputably he is a great fact, which may be safely left to speak for itself. As, however, the weight of evidence is decidedly in favour of the latter, confirmed as it is by the well-known shake of Lord Burghley's head, and there's nothing in it, the progress of science in the present day naturally claims for man a far higher antiquity than the Jewish records are disposed to allow. Moses, the oldest historian whose writings have come down to us, with the exception of some fragments of Hermes Trismegistus, and the Proverbs of Aphobis, only allows him a period of about 6000 years for his sojourn below. As, however, this is confidently assumed to be too short a period for the requirements of science, we venture to suggest a solution of this difficult problem by which true philosophy and the Divine oracles may be brought into harmony with each other. It is well known that the most distinguished Pyr- rhonistsf of the present day have some difficulty in deciding upon the exact ...