...qualities are transmitted from parent to offspring. " In the present state of our knowledge," he says, " we cannot safely assume that there has been any permanent...likely to be greater in an infant born in the most civilised part of Europe, than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country." Our answer...

...physical laws, and so completely are we in the dark as to the circumstances which transmit the hereditary transmission of character, temperament, and other...consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point." We think, should Mr. Buckle's attention ever be turned to the discoveries of Gall and Spurzheim, he...

...physical laws, and so completely are we in ignorance as to the circumstances which regulate the hereditary transmission of character, temperament, and other personal peculiarities, that we must consider this progress as a very doubtful point ; and the progress which is now treated of resolves itself, not into...

...physical laws, and so completely are we in the dark as to the circumstances which regulate the hereditary transmission of character, temperament," and other...knowledge, we cannot safely assume that there has heen any permanent improvement in the moral or intellectual faculties of man, nor have we any decisive...

...altogether hypothetical." " We have no proof of the existence of hereditary talents, vices, or virtues ; we cannot safely assume that there has been any permanent...man, nor have we any decisive ground for saying that these faculties are likely to be greater in an infant born in the most civilized part of Europe, than...

...his predecessors in the inquiry, has availed himself of every means of extensive generalisation, is that " we must consider this alleged progress as a...improvement in the moral or intellectual faculties of man."* And he concludes that progress is measured by the opportunity and its use. It will be remembered, that...

...physical laws, and so completely are we in the dark as to the circumstances which regulate the hereditary transmission of character, temperament, and other...consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point. — p. loo. It is a doubtfulpoint ; but I wish to suggest to Mr. Buckle, that he has advanced no argument...

...physical laws, and so completely are we in the dark as to the circumstances which transmit the hereditary transmission of character, temperament, and other...consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point." We think, should Mr. Buckle's attention ever be turned to the discoveries of Gall and Spurzheim, he...

...of banishing subordinate considerations, * " Such, however, is still our ignorance of physical laws, that we must consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point." p. 160. The difficulty of admitting it, he must at all events allow to be incomparably diminished by...

...qualities are transmitted from parent to offspring. " In the present state of our knowledge," he says, " we cannot safely assume that there has been any permanent...likely to be greater in an infant born in the most civilised part of Europe, than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country." Our answer...