Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization Quotes

“do not think I have ever met with a single fact which seems to me to justify the theory, of which Dr. von Martius is perhaps the leading advocate, that the ordinary condition of the savage is the result of degeneration from a far higher state.”
― Edward Burnett Tylor (sir.), Researches into the early history of mankind and the development of civilization

“degeneration has been rather of a local than of a general character,”
― Edward Burnett Tylor (sir.), Researches into the early history of mankind and the development of civilization