There were crude medieval notions that fossils were " freaks " or " sports " of nature (lusus naturae), or that they represented failures of a creative force within the earth (a notion of Greek and Arabic origin), or that larger and smaller fossils represented the remains of races of giants or of pygmies (the mythical idea). [Please select]
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The pygmies would be preferable. [Please select]
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The Pygmies of Central Africa are mighty hunters, otherwise they could not survive. [Please select]
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Such men appear as giants, in comparison with whom ordinary men sink to the size of pygmies. [Please select]
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He lived in the damp blackness of vast forests, as the pygmies of Africa do to this very day. [Please select]
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The oldest trees have a comparatively youthful appearance, and are pygmies in girth beside the decaying stumps of their giant ancestors. [Please select]
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One doesn't ask from giants the same sort of perception that one does from pygmies. [Please select]
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[Sidenote: _Transforming Inertness into Alertness_] Pygmies cannot become giants physically or intellectually. [Please select]
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Such men appear as giants in comparison with whom ordinary men sink to the size of pygmies. [Please select]
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A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders, there lived an earth-born Giant, named Antaeus, and a million or more of curious little earth-born people, who were called Pygmies. [Please select]
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Among the Pygmies, I suppose, if one of them grew to the height of six or eight inches, he was reckoned a prodigiously tall man. [Please select]
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