The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 37
Page viii
... facts . But they failed to convince their contemporaries that there was any room in the hierarchy of the sciences for this newcomer . The failure was so palpable that after twenty years ' struggle the editors abandoned their task . But ...
... facts . But they failed to convince their contemporaries that there was any room in the hierarchy of the sciences for this newcomer . The failure was so palpable that after twenty years ' struggle the editors abandoned their task . But ...
Page ix
... fact ; and this was long since anticipated by the gen- eral literature of history and ethnography . Who , for instance , has denied that there is such a thing as " racial " or " national " character ? Did any- one take it into his head ...
... fact ; and this was long since anticipated by the gen- eral literature of history and ethnography . Who , for instance , has denied that there is such a thing as " racial " or " national " character ? Did any- one take it into his head ...
Page xi
... facts , not on records and documents . To allege that this field is already occupied is wide of the mark . It is no more embraced in general eth- nology or in history than experimental psychology is included in general physiology . The ...
... facts , not on records and documents . To allege that this field is already occupied is wide of the mark . It is no more embraced in general eth- nology or in history than experimental psychology is included in general physiology . The ...
Page xii
... facts , feelings , thoughts , and historic events , and seeks by comparison and analysis to dis- cover their causal relations . It is wholly objective , and for that reason eminently a " natural " science . The objective truths with ...
... facts , feelings , thoughts , and historic events , and seeks by comparison and analysis to dis- cover their causal relations . It is wholly objective , and for that reason eminently a " natural " science . The objective truths with ...
Page xiii
... fact : -precisely the same quantity of physico- chemical change may be needed for the evolution into consciousness of two ideas ; but if the one is false and the other true , their psychic values are INTRODUCTION xiii.
... fact : -precisely the same quantity of physico- chemical change may be needed for the evolution into consciousness of two ideas ; but if the one is false and the other true , their psychic values are INTRODUCTION xiii.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action activities adapt advance Alexander von Humboldt American animals anthropology Archæology ASTHENIA becomes belongs Black Death body brain brute Bushmen centres character civilisation contrast cultivation culture degeneration destruction direct disease effort emotions environment eral ethnic mental ethnic mind ethnic psychology ethnographer ethnology evolution example existence expressions fact faculties favour force former forms G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS geographic goitre group-mind growth heredity higher homoplastic human groups ideas individual mind influence instincts intellectual labour language latter laws lives marriage means measure ment mental powers merely modern morbid natural natural selection nervous nutrition observers occupations opinion organism pathological physical physiological polygamous potent present primitive principles processes Professor progress psychical Quechuas race racial recognised regressive relation savage sense sentiment social society soul species stimulus temperament tendency thought tion traits tribes true unity variation writers Wundt
Popular passages
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.
Page 204 - A timely and useful volume. . , . The author wields a pleasing pen and knows how to make the subject attractive. . . . The work is calculated to spread among its readers an attraction to the science of anthropology. The author's observations are exceedingly genuine and his descriptions are vivid.
Page 204 - Age," etc. Fully illustrated. 8°, $2.00. *' This volume is the best popular and yet scientific treatment we know of of the origin and development of land-forms, and we immediately adopted it as the best available text-book for a college course in physiography. . . . The book is full of life and vigor, and shows the sympathetic touch of a man deeply in love with nature.
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.
Page 204 - Dr. Newman's discussions of bacteria and disease, of immunity, of antitoxins, and of methods of disinfection, are illuminating, and are to be commended to all seeking information on these points.