I never wrote a double ballade, and stanzas four and five of the Double Ballade of Primitive Man were contributed by the learned doyen of Anthropology, Mr. Tylor, author of Primitive Culture.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
"Europa", 1908.) inclines towards the assumption of a polyphyletic origin of the three main races of man, the African primitive form of which has given rise also to the gorilla and chimpanzee, the Asiatic to the Orang, the Gibbon, and Pithecanthropus. Kollmann regards existing human races as derived from small primitive races (pigmies), and considers that Homo primigenius must have arisen in a secondary and degenerative manner.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
He tries to grasp it, it vanishes. The wind touches him, but he cannot see it, which makes him feel uncanny. The most real thing is that which affects most senses and especially what affects the sense of touch. Apparently touch is the deepest down, most primitive, of senses. The rest are specialisations and complications. Primitive man has no formal rubric "optical delusion," but he learns practically to distinguish between things that affect only one sense and things that affect two or more--if he did not he would not survive. But both classes of things are real to him. Percipi est esse.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Ghosts and sprites, ancestor worship, the soul, oracles, prophecy; all these elements of the primitive supersensuous world we willingly admit to be the proper material of religion; but other elements are more surprising; such are class-names, abstract ideas, numbers, geometrical figures. We do not nowadays think of these as of religious content, but to primitive men they were all part of the furniture of his supernatural world.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Man, Descent of. --J.G. Frazer on some primitive theories of the origin of. --mental and moral qualities of animals and. --pre-Darwinian views on the Descent of. --religious views of primitive. --Tertiary flints worked by.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Here our study must cease. When the primitive man comes into literature, he is no longer primitive.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》