Life in Brazil: Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm - Couverture rigide

Ewbank, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879170077 ISBN 13 : 9780879170073

Editeur : Imprint unknown, 1975

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Book by Ewbank Thomas

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The present times are the beginning of a fresh chapter in mans history, and look not unlike the opening of a new epoch in the development of his being. Habits and impulses hitherto rudimental seem ready to burst into maturity, as if the larva state of his existence was closing, and he was about to use wings as well as feet an age of locomotion, and the prelude to one of flight. Nature always presages marked changes in the condition of her diversified offspring, and by indications not easily mistaken. The appearance of new, or an advanced elaboration of existing organs, is invariably preceded or accompanied by corresponding instincts. A lepidopter is no sooner fitted for action in an element different from that in which its previous constitution delighted, than it finds itself impelled to the exercise of newlyborn powers, and anon is off in quest of untasted pleasures. The phenomenon of metamorphosis is common to every form of life. Man is but an aspiring insect, and the addition of instruments of volitation would scarcely surpass in novelty transformations which the species, according to some authors, has already undergone. As on the approach of migratory seasons with lower tribes, a general restlessness pervades society. Classes and masses heretofore inert are beginning to move and to flutter, agitated by latent influences. Pede-locomotion is growing obsolete, and a disposition to soar every where manifest.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Imprint unknown
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879170077
• ISBN 13: 9780879170073
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 469
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible