Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518807299)

Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams: but it is singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, presaging a reality. Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist: the Atlantis was an imagination, but Columbus found a western world: and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an existence only in the realms of art, creatures approaching man more nearly than they in essential structure, and yet as thoroughly brutal as the goat's or horse's half of the mythical compound, are now not only known, but notorious.

Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
ISBN-10: 1518807291
ISBN-13: 9781518807299
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2015
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d