{"product_id":"civilization-and-science-emil-du-bois-reymond-9781545469958","title":"Civilization and Science: History of human progress","description":"Civilization and Science: History of human progress. \"The relation of man to Nature primordially and of savage races in the present day is, as we know, very different from what it has been represented to be by poets and philosophers. In the delightful pictures their fancy painted there was nothing true: the idyllic conditions amid which they fancied the still youthful human race as living never have existed anywhere. The history of man the world over has its beginning not in a golden age, but in an age of stone. Instead of noble shepherds and lovely shepherdesses, who, under benignant skies amid picturesque scenes, live in innocence on the produce of their flocks, decorously enjoying all the purest gifts of fortune, the reality presents to our view rude, uncouth hordes struggling against hunger, against wild beasts, against the inclemency of the seasons; buried in filth, in groveling ignorance, and brutal selfishness; their women made slaves, their old people cast out; practising cannibalism first out of necessity, and then because superstitious usage had hallowed the custom...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emil Du Bois-Reymond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1545469954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781545469958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.30d","brand":"Emil Du Bois-Reymond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124797599999,"sku":"9781545469958","price":8.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57815bb1-e3d1-4fe5-8f9f-1ce617c610b0.jpg?v=1687438888","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/civilization-and-science-emil-du-bois-reymond-9781545469958","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}