Physiognomy. A practical and scientific treatise (1881)
Stanton, Mary Olmstead · San Francisco, Printed for the author: San Francisco news company · leaf 62
Esqui-maux, have so little ability, in this direction as not to beable to calculate or comprehend anything beyond the numberof their fingers and toes. I think that mans superiorityover the brute creation is more marked in this respect thanin the matter of simple reason, which attribute many deny… … HERBERT SPENCER. The faculties of reason—Causality and Compar-ison— endow man withthe gift of abstract math-ematical ratiocination; inthis respect he is, per-haps, more distinguishedfrom the brutes than inany other manner, withthe exception of the fac-*ulty of Speech, althoughthis is possessed by…
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