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... animal world , though male and female are performing the same functions in the same way . It is this ability to raise problems that marks the distinction between animal and human , this developing of the rational faculty . This faculty ...
... animal world , though male and female are performing the same functions in the same way . It is this ability to raise problems that marks the distinction between animal and human , this developing of the rational faculty . This faculty ...
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... animal world , made by Aristotle in the fourth century before the Christian era , remained practically unchanged for upwards of eighteen hundred years , and his phi- losophy is still the basis of much of our modern teaching . Turning to ...
... animal world , made by Aristotle in the fourth century before the Christian era , remained practically unchanged for upwards of eighteen hundred years , and his phi- losophy is still the basis of much of our modern teaching . Turning to ...
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... animal world from whence we came , that we must look in order to discover the distinguishing charac- teristics , which have ever since marked off the female from the male , and which have remained unchanged through an unbroken line of ...
... animal world from whence we came , that we must look in order to discover the distinguishing charac- teristics , which have ever since marked off the female from the male , and which have remained unchanged through an unbroken line of ...
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... animals in nineteen cases among the men , but in only two among the women . In the matter of super- numerary digits , out of a large number of examina- tions , more than half of them were found among the men . Testimony of this kind ...
... animals in nineteen cases among the men , but in only two among the women . In the matter of super- numerary digits , out of a large number of examina- tions , more than half of them were found among the men . Testimony of this kind ...
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... animal , and the human family alike afford evidence , that the female having the burden of the race on her hands has been superiorly equipped by nature to enable her to perform her work . Nature is not a blind blunderer . Having certain ...
... animal , and the human family alike afford evidence , that the female having the burden of the race on her hands has been superiorly equipped by nature to enable her to perform her work . Nature is not a blind blunderer . Having certain ...
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Page 207 - This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Page 316 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself : handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 207 - And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
Page 326 - For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 22 - Noiselessly as the springtime Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Open their thousand leaves...
Page 310 - And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. 17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread ? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened ? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Page 215 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 323 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 307 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 102 - And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself, and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God hath given thee.