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... powers ; and such a " psychological " classification is not a novelty in anthropology . These mental traits , characteristics , differences , be- tween human groups are precisely the material which ethnic psychology takes as its ...
... powers ; and such a " psychological " classification is not a novelty in anthropology . These mental traits , characteristics , differences , be- tween human groups are precisely the material which ethnic psychology takes as its ...
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... Mind . - There is a branch of science called " comparative psychology . " Its province is to trace the evolution of human mental powers to their earlier phases in the inferior animals . So successfully has it been pursued that not a few ...
... Mind . - There is a branch of science called " comparative psychology . " Its province is to trace the evolution of human mental powers to their earlier phases in the inferior animals . So successfully has it been pursued that not a few ...
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... powers or faculties which are peculiarly his own ; that all his endow- ments differ in degree only from those ... Mental progress is not unknown in the brute , and it is well to remember that it is not universal among men . What , then ...
... powers or faculties which are peculiarly his own ; that all his endow- ments differ in degree only from those ... Mental progress is not unknown in the brute , and it is well to remember that it is not universal among men . What , then ...
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... psychic in origin , proceeding from the mental conclusion reached . No more interesting comparison between instinct ... mental powers . The one object at which they aim is species - continuation , and to this all else is sub- ordinated ...
... psychic in origin , proceeding from the mental conclusion reached . No more interesting comparison between instinct ... mental powers . The one object at which they aim is species - continuation , and to this all else is sub- ordinated ...
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... powers . Hence it is that human society is and must be ever chan- ging with individual aspirations , and can never be iron - bound in one form . Imagination . - There is another faculty of mind ... mental criterion we could select to measure ...
... powers . Hence it is that human society is and must be ever chan- ging with individual aspirations , and can never be iron - bound in one form . Imagination . - There is another faculty of mind ... mental criterion we could select to measure ...
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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