"Autochthonous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who was the patroness of culture—seems a fortunate accident, an undesigned coincidence of the most striking sort. To the Greeks, steeped in mythologic faith, accustomed to regard their lineage as autochthonous and their polity as the fabric of a god, nothing seemed more natural than that Pallas should have selected for her own exactly that portion of Hellas where the arts and sciences might flourish best. Let the ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... divisions,—in their order of antiquity, the Chelleen, the Mousterien, the Solutreen, and the Magdalenien; M. Perrier du Carne thinks that the traces of the Solutre and of the Madeleine show them to have been derived from two races long contemporary on the same soil, of which the former were autochthonous and the latter, immigrants, who came in with the reindeer and followed him when he retreated northward. M. Piette objects to the word Magdalenien, and proposes to replace it by glyptique, for, during this period, man ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
... merchants; in short a miniature bourgeoisie; below which, again, lived and moved the retail shopkeepers, the proletaries and the peasantry. The bourgeoisie presented (like that of the Swiss cantons and of other small countries) the curious spectacle of the ramifications of certain autochthonous families, old-fashioned and unpolished perhaps, but who rule a whole region and pervade it, until nearly all its inhabitants are cousins. Under Louis XI., an epoch at which the commons first made real ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac |
