Burton : Captain Sir Richard Francis (1821-90), English explorer, soldier, linguist, diplomat, spy: educated on the continent without system & Trinity College, Oxford for 5 terms from 1840: joined the Indian Army 1842: made himself proficient in Oriental languages, studied Muhammedan life & customs thoroughly at Baroda & in the Sind Survey: wrote in Pushto (Pashtu?) & Baluchi: in England (1849-53) published works on languages & his Indian experiences; e.g. “The British Empire in the East is founded upon the good opinion of us entertained by natives & their bad opinion of themselves”: his works exceeded 50 volumes. [Buckland]
... a schoolmaster at Burton on Trent Grammar School, Staffordshire (Lichfield Record Office BD110/114; personal communication from Ferguson Memorial Library, Sydney). Presumably (non-preservation of records makes it impossible to confirm this) he studied Latin at the same school, which in the nineteenth century had a "strong emphasis on classics", that is, Latin and Greek ("Burton-on-Trent Grammar School")... Archival sources are listed in full in the last column of the Tables. ] Buckland, C. E., ed., Dictionary of Indian Biography . Reprint edition. Delhi: Indological Book House, 1971. "Burton on Trent Grammar School", http://www.burton-on-trent.org/1-History/ School%20History/History.htm Gardiner, Robert Barlow, ed., Admissions Registers of St. Paul's School from 1876 - 1905 . London: ...
... speciation event occurs quite rapidly in geological terms, so rapidly that it has sometimes been called ‘quantum speciation’, on analogy with the ‘quantum jumps’ that occur in atoms and molecules.” (Burton Guttman 12 ) The meaning of “punctuated equilibrium” should now be clear. Species do not change markedly during their existence, their shape remains static; and instead of the theoretical evolutionary... × Ernst Mayr: op. cit., p. 155. × Burton Guttman: Evolution , p. 57. × Kim Sterelny: Dawkins vs. Gould , p. 109. ...
... Primates that includes the monkeys, apes, and their kin. The forces of evolution that operate on other kinds of organisms have shaped humanity just as inexorably, and they continue to do so today.” (Burton Guttman 20 ) “Since Darwin, it is no longer useful to ask: ‘Why has a particular species been created?’ It is not scientifically productive to assume that the huge panoply of millions of species... John Brockman (ed.): What is Your Dangerous Idea? p. 23. × Burton Guttman: Evolution , p. 141. × Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley (ed.): Richard Dawkins , p. 259. ...
... disciples who are our contemporaries do not miss any occasion to remind their readers, with obvious gusto, of what is according to Darwinism the real, scientific position of the human species. Burton Guttman, for example, writes: “ Homo sapiens is a mammal and a primate, a member of the Class Mammalia and the order Primates that includes the monkeys, apes, and their kin. … The forces of evolution... Lagrange and Patrizia d’Andréa: “Définitions occultes”, in Des Savants façe à l’occulte, p. 19. × Burton Guttman: Evolution, p. 141. × Mary and John Gribbin: Being Human, p. 119. ...
... element (which in the language current in the New-Testament period would be called "Gnostic") is most prominent in the words put into his mouth by John's Gospel: "I and my Father are one." Richard Burton, the famous nine- teenth-century translator of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights which he entitled A Thousand Nights and a Night, a version Sri Aurobindo intensely admired, wrote a long poem called ...
... materialism, or a faith in metaphysical materialism, traceable to Darwin himself. From this one should not conclude that (true) Lamarckism is no longer a factor in evolutionary thought and research. Burton Guttman writes in his book Evolution : “Lamarck’s ideas are worth mentioning if only because similar ideas, labeled ‘neo-Lamarckism’, keep reappearing in biology.” And Stephen Gould wrote: “Cultural ...
... prose. Nevertheless, it would not be far from the truth to say that Sri Aurobindo's most characteristic means of self-revelation is a polyphonic style that recalls English masters of the ornate like Burton and Browne and Lamb and Lander at different times, but is in fact sui generis, a style which Arjava (J.A. Chadwick) named "global", descriptive of the range of thought as well as the manner of ...
... Bassora is "Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis al-Jalis", a story told in the Arabian Nights (thirty-fourth to thirty-eighth nights). Sri Aurobindo owned in Baroda a multi-volume edition of Richard Burton's translation of the Arabic text (London, 1894), which he considered "as much a classic as the original". Rodogune. Two complete, independent versions of this play exist. Sri Aurobindo wrote ...
... original, nor for that matter Pentaur's poem on the conquests of Rameses in ancient Egyptian or at least the fragment of it that survives. I don't know Arabic either but I don't mind that having read Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights which is as much a classic as the original. Anyhow the gaps are vast and many. 13 July 1937 Old Forms into New Shapes Jyoti doesn't want to rest content ...
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