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... of the distinguished author whose lamented death has deprived the science of anthropology of one of its ablest representatives . Is- TH L. F. TH PA [ H INTRODUCTION . CONTENTS PART I THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE iv EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... of the distinguished author whose lamented death has deprived the science of anthropology of one of its ablest representatives . Is- TH L. F. TH PA [ H INTRODUCTION . CONTENTS PART I THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE iv EDITOR'S PREFACE.
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... CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ETHNIC MIND CHAPTER I THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN MIND CHAPTER II THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP . THE ETHNIC MIND CHAPTER III PAGE vii 3 23 PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE ETHNIC MIND . PRO- GRESSIVE AND REGRESSIVE ...
... CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ETHNIC MIND CHAPTER I THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN MIND CHAPTER II THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP . THE ETHNIC MIND CHAPTER III PAGE vii 3 23 PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE ETHNIC MIND . PRO- GRESSIVE AND REGRESSIVE ...
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... culture , but to everything which makes up national or ethnic life , be it an historic event , an object of art , a law , custom , rite , myth , or mode of expression . The origins of these , in the sense of their proximate or ex ...
... culture , but to everything which makes up national or ethnic life , be it an historic event , an object of art , a law , custom , rite , myth , or mode of expression . The origins of these , in the sense of their proximate or ex ...
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... cultural , " history of the ethnic mind.1 For let it be said Note that I say ethnic mind . here , as well as repeated later , that there is no such 1 [ The author had apparently ... culture in the isolated individual , xiv INTRODUCTION.
... cultural , " history of the ethnic mind.1 For let it be said Note that I say ethnic mind . here , as well as repeated later , that there is no such 1 [ The author had apparently ... culture in the isolated individual , xiv INTRODUCTION.
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A Study in Ethnic Psychology Daniel Garrison Brinton Livingston Farrand. thing as progress or culture in the isolated ... cultural " history will present something of a new departure in anthropology - a classification of all ethnologic ...
A Study in Ethnic Psychology Daniel Garrison Brinton Livingston Farrand. thing as progress or culture in the isolated ... cultural " history will present something of a new departure in anthropology - a classification of all ethnologic ...
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Page 204 - Earth Sculpture ; or, The Origin of Land-Forms. By JAMES GEIKIE, LL.D., DCL, FRS, etc., Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh ; author of " The Great Ice Age,
Page 2 - If it may be doubted whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, — that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
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Page 138 - A man who was not impelled by any deep, instinctive feeling, to sacrifice his life for the good of others, yet was roused to such actions by a sense of glory, would by his example excite the same wish for glory in other men, and would strengthen by exercise the noble feeling of admiration. He might thus do far more good to his tribe than by begetting offspring with a tendency to inherit his own high character.
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