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- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER II GEOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER III ASTRONOMY
- CHAPTER IV FROM “SIGNS AND WONDERS” TO LAW IN THE HEAVENS
- CHAPTER V FROM GENESIS TO GEOLOGY
- CHAPTER VI THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, EGYPTOLOGY, AND ASSYRIOLOGY
- CHAPTER VII THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN AND PREHISTORIC ARCHÆOLOGY
- CHAPTER VIII THE “FALL OF MAN” AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- CHAPTER IX THE “FALL OF MAN” AND ETHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER X THE “FALL OF MAN” AND HISTORY
- CHAPTER XI FROM “THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR” TO METEOROLOGY
- CHAPTER XII FROM MAGIC TO CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
CHAPTER IX - THE “FALL OF MAN” AND ETHNOLOGY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER II GEOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER III ASTRONOMY
- CHAPTER IV FROM “SIGNS AND WONDERS” TO LAW IN THE HEAVENS
- CHAPTER V FROM GENESIS TO GEOLOGY
- CHAPTER VI THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, EGYPTOLOGY, AND ASSYRIOLOGY
- CHAPTER VII THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN AND PREHISTORIC ARCHÆOLOGY
- CHAPTER VIII THE “FALL OF MAN” AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- CHAPTER IX THE “FALL OF MAN” AND ETHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER X THE “FALL OF MAN” AND HISTORY
- CHAPTER XI FROM “THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR” TO METEOROLOGY
- CHAPTER XII FROM MAGIC TO CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Summary
We have seen that, closely connected with the main lines of investigation in archæology and anthropology, there were other researches throwing much light on the entire subject. In a previous chapter we saw especially that Lafitau and Jussieu were among the first to collect and compare facts bearing on the natural history of man, gathered by travellers in various parts of the earth, thus laying foundations for the science of comparative ethnology. It was soon seen that ethnology had most important bearings upon the question of the material, intellectual, moral, and religious evolution of the human race; in every civilized nation, therefore, appeared scholars who began to study the characteristics of various groups of men as ascertained from travellers, and to compare the results thus gained with each other and with those obtained by archæology.
Thus, more and more clear became the evidences that the tendency of the race has been upward from low beginnings. It was found that groups of men still existed possessing characteristics of those in the early periods of development to whom the drift and caves and shell-heaps and pile-dwellings bear witness; groups of men using many of the same implements and weapons, building their houses in the same way, seeking their food by the same means, enjoying the same amusements, and going through the same general stages of culture; some being in a condition corresponding to the earlier, some to the later, of those early periods.
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- A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom , pp. 303 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1896