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Tasmanian  n.  A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), In the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.






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"Tasmanian" Quotes from Famous Books



... no trace whatever of the moral sense can be discovered. Charles Darwin in one of his works relates a fact, which Mrs. Besant has quoted, in illustration of this. An English missionary reproached a Tasmanian with having killed his wife in order to eat her. In that rudimentary intellect, the reproach aroused an idea quite different from that of a crime; the cannibal thought the missionary imagined that human flesh was of an unpleasant ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... after day with the flute, furnish a somewhat exceptional case. Savage women are evidently very attentive to music; Backhouse (as quoted, by Ling Roth[126]) mentions how a woman belonging to the very primitive and now extinct Tasmanian race, when shown a musical box, listened "with intensity; her ears moved like those of a dog or horse, to ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



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