Man and His Migrations

Man and His Migrations

The following pages represent a Course of Six Lectures delivered at the Mechanics Institution, Liverpool, in the month of March of the present year; the matter being now laid before the public in a somewhat fuller and more systematic form than was compatible with the original delivery. [vvi] CHAPTER I. Page The Natural or Physical history of Manthe Civiltheir differencedivisions of the Natural or Physical historyAnthropologyEthnologyhow far pursued by the ancientsHerodotushow far by the modernsBuffonLinnusDaubentonCamperBlumenbachthe term CaucasianCuvierPhilology as an instrument of ethnological investigationPigafettaHervasLeibnitzRelandAdelungKlaproththe union of Philology and of AnatomyPrichardits Palontological characterinfluence of Lyells Geologyof Whewells History of the Inductive Sciences 136 CHAPTER II. Ethnologyits objectsthe chief problems connected with itprospective questionstransfer of populationsExtract from Knoxcorrelation of certain parts of the body to certain external influencesparts less subject to such influencesretrospective questionsthe unity or non-unity of our speciesopinionsplurality of speciesmultiplicity of protoplastsdoctrine of developmentDokkosExtractantiquity of our speciesits geographical originthe term race 3766 CHAPTER III. Methodsthe science one of observation and deduction rather than experimentclassificationon mineralogical, on zoological principlesthe first for Anthropology, the second for Ethnologyvalue of Language as a testinstances of its lossof its retentionwhen it proves original relation, when intercoursethe grammatical and glossarial testsclassifications must be realthe distribution of Mansize of areaethnological contrasts in close geographical contactdiscontinuity and isolation of areasoceanic migrations 67100 ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44605
Author: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Release Date: Jan 6, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English