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... human groups are precisely the material which ethnic psychology takes as its material for investiga- tions . Its aim is to define them clearly , to explain their origin and growth , and to set forth what in- fluence they assert on a ...
... human groups are precisely the material which ethnic psychology takes as its material for investiga- tions . Its aim is to define them clearly , to explain their origin and growth , and to set forth what in- fluence they assert on a ...
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... groups , in stationary homes along watercourses , —these men un- questionably had a spoken language , and minds com ... human species , is it worth while going into that antiquated discussion of the " monogenists " and " polygenists " as to ...
... groups , in stationary homes along watercourses , —these men un- questionably had a spoken language , and minds com ... human species , is it worth while going into that antiquated discussion of the " monogenists " and " polygenists " as to ...
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... human groups is the one difference between their voluntary and involuntary activities . The lat- ter are instinctive , the former reflective ; the latter are mechanical , the former are rational ; the latter are of bondage , the former ...
... human groups is the one difference between their voluntary and involuntary activities . The lat- ter are instinctive , the former reflective ; the latter are mechanical , the former are rational ; the latter are of bondage , the former ...
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... human group which succumbs to new environment does not adapt itself to it , but is drowned in it . The changes required by adaptability are chiefly external and of will . They are such as the recognition of new experiences suggests as ...
... human group which succumbs to new environment does not adapt itself to it , but is drowned in it . The changes required by adaptability are chiefly external and of will . They are such as the recognition of new experiences suggests as ...
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... human groups . here . The fact remains and must be faced . There are natural limitations to each mind and to each group of minds . Compared with the most highly gifted , the less so stand in the physiological relation of " rudimentary ...
... human groups . here . The fact remains and must be faced . There are natural limitations to each mind and to each group of minds . Compared with the most highly gifted , the less so stand in the physiological relation of " rudimentary ...
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A. C. HADDON action activities adapt advance Alexander von Humboldt American anthropology becomes belongs body brain brute Bushmen character chiefly civilisation conscious contrast cultivation culture degeneration destruction direct disease effort emotions environment eral ethnic mental ethnic mind ethnic psychology ethnography ethnology evolution example existence expressions external fact faculties favour force former forms G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS geographic goitre group-mind growth heredity higher human groups ideas individual mind influence instincts intellectual JAMES GEIKIE labour language latter laws less 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