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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...but I am going to take the time and space to say more, especially as the discussion will lead up to the question of race type, concerning which we should be at rest before proceeding to the further analysis of the institutions of government. The alleged individual endowment presents itself to us either as physical or as psychical; or rather, to be more exact, it is discussed sometimes as the one, sometimes as the other; for the line in such discussions is not well drawn in fact, even when it is presumed to be in theory, and the argument is apt to shift at critical moments from one set of terms to the other in a way that is not conducive to trustworthy conclusions. So-far as the individual endowment regarded as psychical is concerned, I have surely said enough in Part I to make it unnecessary to go into details here. I will only recall that psychical factors regarded as causes proved to be mere shadows of what they were supposed to explain. Certainly, now, if there is any validity at all in my argument, one cannot hope to bring the social groups down from their alleged floating position "up in the air" by trying to hitch them on to any individual endowment of this nature. We must remember that in one sense all_science is "up in the air." It does not have absolute validity. It is the construction of the scientist's mind, to use the current phrase; it is all conception, not perception, to take another similar way of phrasing. To give our groups the appearance of being "pegged down" by using fictitious pegs will not give them any more scientific validity. I am not asserting that never, nor in any way, a more than scientific truth will be reached through the study of human social living. I am asserting only that I am not after such results...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230363572
- ISBN 13 9781230363578
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages174
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