Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

by Various Authors

EN·~2 hours·10 chapters

Chapters

10 total
1

CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL - CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.

0:14
2

WOLF-CHILDREN.

24:16
3

THE LITERATURE OF PARLIAMENT.

12:32
4

LIGHTS FOR THE NIGHT.

22:35
5

OUT-OF-DOORS LIFE IN CENTRAL EUROPE.

16:24
6

MY FIRST BRIEF.

15:53
7

ELECTRO-BIOLOGY—(SO-CALLED.)

29:11
8

NEW MOTIVE-POWER.

2:57
9

GOOD-NIGHT.

1:11
10

ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE.

2:10

Description

A curious mind will find this sweeping exploration of “wolf‑children” both unsettling and thought‑provoking. The essay opens by contrasting today’s material obsessions with the rare chance to study humanity’s most primitive instincts, drawing on encounters from the North Pacific to the forests of Europe and the jungles of India. It then moves into vivid, 18th‑century accounts of children raised without normal society—boys who slept in trees, ate raw leaves, and communicated only through animal sounds, alongside a feral girl whose savage habits eventually gave way to speech.

Through careful description of each case, the narrator invites listeners to consider what makes us human and how far nature can shape our moral core. The prose weaves scientific curiosity with moral philosophy, offering a window into early attempts to understand the limits of nurture versus nature. As the investigation unfolds, the listener is left pondering whether the wild can ever truly be tamed.

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Full title

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (122K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2007-03-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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