"Eduard Hahn and the End of the "Three Stages of Man

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ID4491558
AuthorsFritz L Kramer (corresponding author)
Year1967
Volume57
Issue1
Pages73
Publication date1967-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/212760
OpenAlexW2317891507
LanguageEN
Citations received8

human life must have come down from the highest antiquity to our time, stage by stage, as Dicaearchus writes, and the remotest stage must have been the state of nature when man lived on those things which the virgin earth produced spontaneously. Then from this mode, the pastoral, in which, by plucking from wild and woodland trees and shrubs acorns, arbutus berries, and mulberries, they made a store of fruit for subsequent use, and in the same way and for the same end captured such wild animals as they could and shut them up and tamed them. There is reason to believe that amongst these animals sheep were the first adopted, on account of their usefulness and gentle nature, for they are by nature extremely gentle andespecially fitted for association with man's life, for through them milk and cheese were added to his food, and for his body they furnished clothing in the shape of skins. Finally, with the third stage, they reached, from the pastoral mode of life, the agricultural, retaining in it much of the two former stages, and went on long in the state which they had reached before they could attain our present civilization

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Biology · Civilization · Clothing · Geography · State (computer science · Woodland · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Ecology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History

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