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... measures of the day . Some have jealously feared that it offers itself as a substitute for the philosophy of history . True that it draws some of its material from history ; but as much from ethnography and geography . Moreover , it is ...
... measures of the day . Some have jealously feared that it offers itself as a substitute for the philosophy of history . True that it draws some of its material from history ; but as much from ethnography and geography . Moreover , it is ...
Page xiii
... measure of psychical function . All measurements in experimental psychology , be they by chemistry or physics , are quantitative only , and can be nothing else ( Wundt ) ; whereas psychical comparisons are purely qualitative . A single ...
... measure of psychical function . All measurements in experimental psychology , be they by chemistry or physics , are quantitative only , and can be nothing else ( Wundt ) ; whereas psychical comparisons are purely qualitative . A single ...
Page xiv
... measured and estimated just to the ex- tent that we have instruments of precision for the purpose ; the latter wholly elude any such attempts , and must be appraised by the results they have historically achieved , that is , by arts ...
... measured and estimated just to the ex- tent that we have instruments of precision for the purpose ; the latter wholly elude any such attempts , and must be appraised by the results they have historically achieved , that is , by arts ...
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... measure the evolution of races , nations , and individuals . I refer to Imagination , Fancy , the source of our noblest enthusiasms , of our loftiest sentiments , of poetic rapture , and artistic inspiration . These spiritual sentiments ...
... measure the evolution of races , nations , and individuals . I refer to Imagination , Fancy , the source of our noblest enthusiasms , of our loftiest sentiments , of poetic rapture , and artistic inspiration . These spiritual sentiments ...
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... measure , and dance to a tune . Such is the power of the Ethnic Mind , fraught with weal or woe for the nation over whom it rules , tyrannical , portentous , a blind natural force , which may lift its helpless followers to skyey heights ...
... measure , and dance to a tune . Such is the power of the Ethnic Mind , fraught with weal or woe for the nation over whom it rules , tyrannical , portentous , a blind natural force , which may lift its helpless followers to skyey heights ...
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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