This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...at night. Habitual exposure to the sun encourages the growth of the bones, and at the same time counteracts the undue development of the muscles which have been reigning supreme. At this epoch, too, it is not improbable that some conjuncture, such as scarcity of carnivorous food, may have evolved the capacity for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...at night. Habitual exposure to the sun encourages the growth of the bones, and at the same time counteracts the undue development of the muscles which have been reigning supreme. At this epoch, too, it is not improbable that some conjuncture, such as scarcity of carnivorous food, may have evolved the capacity for living on the produce of the soil, instead of that of the chase. The change from constant darkness to a daily participation in the joyousness of nature, last of all enlarges the powers of sensation, and slowly but surely begins to infuse glimmerings of reason into the man. The bone element is meantime developing rapidly, and with it the qualifications for orderly living and steady improvement; until the muscular having succumbed or become secondary, our now well advanced progenitor steps into the osseous or bony stage of existence, attended with fair promises of further advancement. Surveying the world as it at present exists, we find in the different races of mankind every gradation of progress from the less intellectual to the higher forms. Of those furthest advanced, it may be said, that having lived through the osseous age, so favourable to progress and advancement, they are now merging into the brain or sensational epoch, while other lessfavoured races still lag far behind. The ratio of progress has undoubtedly varied at various times and in various climates according to the influences of accident, or those of isolation or intermixture. A totality of progress--that is to say, a progress which embraces, simultaneously, the whole of the forms, and carries them on abreast, as it were, in their march to perfection, has taken place very early in the world's history, and then only to a very limited degree, these happy instances being the results, no...
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