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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAN , the word See also:

common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages for a single See also:person of the human See also:race, of either See also:sex, the See also:Lat. homo, and Gr. av6pwiros; also for the human race collectively, and for a full-grown adult male .human being. Teutonic languages, other than See also:English, have usually adopted a derivative in the first sense, e.g. See also:German Mensch. Philologists are not in agreement as to whether the See also:Sanskrit manu is the See also:direct source, or whether both are to be traced to a common See also:root. Doubt also is thrown on the theory that the word is to be referred to the Indo-Germanic root, men, meaning " to think," seen in " mind," man being essentially the thinking or intelligent See also:animal.

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