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...esA dessiatine= 2.7 acres.—Ed. Eng. ed. under crops, the number of draught animals, the amount of allotment arable per household, and so on. ...: to be able to rent distant land the peasant must have sufficient draught animals, whereas the less prosperous peasants in these areas have not enough even t ...

...ns of observation.  And the Earth, with its continents and oceans, plants, animals and human beings, is an infinitesimal speck in the vast universe. ...ht, as fossilised intelligence’ and of man as the ‘conscious idea” (unlike animals, let alone plants and minerals).<sup>[[#index_split_003.xhtml#footnote-10|1 ...

the ancient Orient; animals were also domesticated of large animals are found next to the remains of the | ...

...houses, grain and other properties, shall further expropriate the surplus animals, agricultural implements, houses, grain and other properties of rich peasan ...recently-levelled gates of the walled town, jammed the roadways with their animals and vehicles. From the valleys came mule carts with iron-shod wooden wheels ...

...omeone is an act of power. In Genesis, God gave Adam authority to name the animals. The naming confirmed dominion over them. European explorers all over the w ...mother,” the moon “our grandmother,” the sun “our elder brother,” and the animals and birds “our brothers and sisters,” out of a sense of true kinship, and i ...

...eniable that we see, in the transition from an Earth peopled by one set of animals to the same Earth swarming with entirely new forms of organic life, a disti which “human existence, body and mind” is the highest, other animals are next, plants the next, and so on down to atomic particles. Man leads al ...

in animals which today are either extinct (as the pre-historic elephant, edible roots. The hunting of small animals was still a casual pursuit. ...

...are dried up in the drought season, groups of animals die. This tells that animals maintain their life in the way of adapting themselves to the surrounding wo ...ding dams, produces electricity, taps underground resources and tames wild animals. He also builds natural circumstances against the devastation of nature. ...

...tars, the sun, the earth with its mountains and valleys, seas and forests, animals, and human beings endowed with consciousness, with the ability to think. Th plants and animals, the evolution of species—these too are specific manifestations of the univ ...

...t sharpened stones could be used for defence against attack or for hunting animals. Man's ancestors began to make stone implements, striking one stone against ...ities became conscious acts as distinct from the instinctive activities of animals. ...

...ittle boars for Damong to domesticate. In addition to the domestication of animals, Damong gathered wild fruits, dug the soil with muntjac's horns, softened t ...ed scope of production and living, and different clans had different totem animals such as the yak, sheep or horse. ...

...d corpuscles which creep about amoeba-like within the bodies of the higher animals. It is however precisely the polar antagonisms put forward as irreconcilabl ...ng the facts. Darwin found that this breeding produced artificially, among animals and plants of the same species, differences greater than those found in wha ...

...orms of other parts that apparently have no connection with them. Thus all animals that have red blood cells without cell nuclei, and in which the head is att ...obviously impossible to seek the derivation of man, the most social of all animals, from non-gregarious immediate ancestors. Mastery over nature began with th ...

...are dried up in the drought season, groups of animals die. This tells that animals maintain their life in the way of adapting themselves to the surrounding wo ...ding dams, produces electricity, taps underground resources and tames wild animals. He also builds natural circumstances against the devastation of nature. ...

...ica, 2.5 million years ago, some apes evolved into the earliest hominids – animals that walked upright and whose hands were henceforward free to fashion tools ...to modify nature in order to exploit its resources more efficiently. Other animals simply take it as it comes. ...

...eings more powerful than men, but they imagined them in the form of men or animals, as material bodies. It was only later that souls and gods (and then the On ...the red is in the fabric itself. Is that certain? You know that there are animals with eyes different from ours that will not see this red cloth; likewise a ...

...The Upper Palaeolithic inhabitants of Mongolia were fami58 liar also with animals of more southern origin — a now extinct type of antelope with spiral horns, ...amps. In addition, the forests in these mountainous areas abounded in wild animals and wildfowl. Hunting, could be carried on there with success and meat and ...

of more than a hundred kinds of animals, and traces of different from the animals and had already come a long way ...

...cultivation had taken place at the hand of man. The species of plants and animals had been established once for all when they came into existence; like conti ...es rise to the orbits of the planets? How did the innumerable varieties of animals and plants arise? And how, above all, did man arise, since after all it was ...

...r, Nanaboozhoo, a central figure in Anishinaabe stories, together with the animals rebuilt Turtle Island with a handful of mud gathered from deep below the fl ...ying into the universe: stars and planets, earth, land, and water, plants, animals, and finally humans. Earth is understood to be a woman, our Mother, who pre ...