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saturday press (honolulu, h.i.) 1880-1885 — winged man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1881-12-10
Location: honolulu, hawaii, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: saturday press (honolulu, h.i.) 1880-1885 · 1881-12-10 · page 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1881-12-10 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “winged man”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... of man hood Supposed a winged man, nblo to accomplish With ease what wo so ineffectu ally attempt with our clumsy balloons, or better still, mnn with superior vital force, better nblo to resist diseise, nnd the laws of chemical decomposition. (Tho advent of such an one would bo hailed ns n con vincing proof of evolution.) Ilcnco in the lack of examples of a diflcrcnt nnd higher type of manhood under tho law of pelf-de-elupmciit, or of degraded men in the ab sence of n fixed nature, and in the plontiful lack of mining links between every marked grade of animals, which links on either of the evolutionary views ongbt to bo found, and ...

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