...mental improvement. Perhaps the query might be best answered by another : How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells...quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign mice — freshwater barely enough for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills? How much...

...mental improvement. Perhaps the query might be best answered by another : How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells...number, — but a single mineral, — quadrupeds, ii •!!•.•. with the exception of foreign mice, — fresh water barely enough for household purposes,...

...of men placed in such circumstances are capable of mental improvement. How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells...but twenty-nine in number ; * but a single mineral (coral) ; quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign mice ; fresh water, barely enough for household...

...mental improvement. Perhaps the query might be best answered by another : How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells...streams, nor mountains, nor hills? How much of the poetry and literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits...

...mental improvement. Perhaps the query might be best answered by another : How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells...quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign mice — freshwater bareljr-enough for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills? How...

...mental improvement. Perhaps the query might be best answered by another, How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only cutting instruments, — the plants of the land in all but twenty-nine in number, — minerals but one, — quadrupeds none, with the exception...

...a poor substitute for the bread-fruit and yams of more favored lands. How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enough for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills ? How...

...a poor substitute for the bread-fruit and yams of more favored lands. How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enough for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills? How...

...life could exist in a land where sheila are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enongh for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills ? How much of the poetry and literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits...

...the like effect. As Professor Dana asks respecting a coral-island : — "How many of the various arts of civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only catting instruments — fresh water barely enough for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains,...