Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature : 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

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Nov 17, 2015

Number of Pages: 54 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1518807291

ISBN-13: 9781518807299