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...settlers were reminded of Paul Bunyan's "minktums" and "tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long...
...Intellectualism. France and England did not really need Kant's assurance that matter existed, nor his categorical imperative. Science was advancing. Industry grew. The bourgeoisie were busy and comfortable. Then biology came upon the scene, the idea of evolution. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), by profession an engineer, a lynx-eyed observer with little "book learning" but a wonderfully retentive, orderly mind, was just the man to synthesize the welter of facts pouring in on all sides. He undertook to demonstrate the principle of evolution working through all the forms of thought in Francis Bacon's "province." His theory...
...generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete...
...What British statesman has won himself the epithet "lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies?" (See COMMONWEALTH...
...Often the mounds were piled up in the images of animals. In Wisconsin are buffalo, moose, elk, deer, fox, wolf, panther, lynx and eagle tumuli, evidently of totemic significance, the actual graves being dug hard by. These images are enormous: eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...