 | Henrietta Sullivan - 1871 - 232 pages
...was known before that language is the distinguishing characteristic of man ; it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between men and brutes ; but that these two were only different expressions of the same fact was not... | |
 | Henrietta Sullivan - 1871 - 236 pages
...was known before that language is the distinguishing characteristic of man ; it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between men and brutes ; but that these two were only different expressions of the same fact was not... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1871 - 378 pages
...comes nearest to us in sagacity." Locke says, " The power of abstracting is not at all in brutes ; and the having of general ideas is that which- puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...comes nearest to us in sagacity. " Locke says, " The power of abstracting is not at all in brutes ; and the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that •which puts...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...this, i think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1873 - 440 pages
...impressions was peculiar to man, and " that it puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, being an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." Only one excuse could be imagined why Mr. Darwin and his followers should have disregarded the... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1874 - 436 pages
...On opposite page — erased — ' I must own I have so much ol the brute in my understanding, that.' see how this agrees with what has been above quoted...brutes do by no means attain unto.] It is observable [^what it is here said] of the difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the pains and skill... | |
| |
For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any... 
