Races and Peoples

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Excerpt from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of EthnographyContents - The mental differences of races. Ethnic psychology~ Cause of psychical development.I. The associative elements. I. The Social Instincts sexual impulse, primitive marriage, conception of love, parental affection, filial and fraternal affection, friendship ancestral worship, the gens or clan, the tribe, personal loyalty, the social organization, systems of consanguinity, position of woman in the state, ethical standards, modesty. 2. Language: universality of primeval speech, rise of linguistic stocks, their number, grammatical structure, classes of languages, morphologic scheme, relation of language to thought Significance of language in ethnography. 3. Religion universality of early forms family and tribal religions, universal or world religions, ethnic study of relig ions, comparison of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, material and ideal religions, associative in¿uences Of relig ions. 4. The Arts of Life: architecture, agriculture, domestication of animals inventions.II. The dispersive elements: adaptability of man to sur roundings. I. The Migratory Instincts: love of roaming, early commerce, lines of traffic and migration. 2. The Combative Instincts: primitive condition of war, love of combat, its advantages, heroes, development through con¿ict.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.