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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesadaptive Alexander Goldenweiser American anthropology anti-evolutionism archaeologists argued autonomous villages Aztecs Boasian Carneiro causal century chiefdoms civilization classical evolutionists comparative method concept course cross-cultural cultural development cultural evolution cultural evolutionism culture change Darwin Darwinian determinants diffusion Dunnell E. B. Tylor Elman Service ethnographic ethnologists ethnology evolution of culture evolutionary sequence evolutionary theory evolved example existence explain fact factors followed Franz Boas Frazer function Herbert Spencer human societies ideas Inca increased complexity individual institutions Julian Steward Keller Kent Flannery Kroeber later laws of culture Leslie White Lowie lution mankind Marxist ment multilinear evolution Murdock natural selection organization origin political population pressure prehistoric primitive principle progress psychic unity races Radcliffe-Brown Robert Robert Lowie role Sahlins sample Service's social evolution Sociology specific stages Steward structure Sumner term tion traits tribes tural Tylor types unilinear Waitz warfare Willey writings wrote Popular passagesPage 49 - THE laws of the phenomena of society are, and can be, nothing but the laws of the actions and passions of human beings united together in the social state. Men, however, in a state of society, are still men; their actions and passions are obedient to the laws of individual human nature. Page 14 - On the whole it appears that wherever there are found elaborate arts, abstruse knowledge, complex institutions, these are results of gradual development from an earlier, simpler, and ruder state of life. No stage of civilization comes into existence spontaneously, but grows or is developed out of the stage before it. This is the great principle which every scholar must lay firm hold of, if he intends to understand either the world he lives in or the history of the past. Page 51 - The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to tne multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them. Page 69 - There can be no doubt that a tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to give aid to each other and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes ; and this would be natural selection. Page 28 - The theory of human degradation to explain the existence of savages and of barbarians is no longer tenable. It came in as a corollary from the Mosaic cosmogony, and was acquiesced in from a supposed necessity which no longer exists. As a theory, it is not only incapable of explaining the existence of savages, but it is without support in the facts of human experience. Page 51 - Obscure as is the problem of the advance of civilisation, we can at least see that a nation which produced during a lengthened period the greatest number of highly intellectual, energetic, brave, patriotic, and benevolent men, would generally prevail over less favoured nations. Page 11 - So far as those parts of man's doings are concerned, which neither have, nor need have, anything moral about them, so far the laws of him are calculable. There are laws for his digestion, and laws of the means by which his digestive organs are supplied with matter. But pass beyond them, and where are we ? In a world where it would be as easy to calculate men's actions by laws like those of positive philosophy as to measure the orbit of Neptune with a foot rule, or weigh Sirius in a grocer's scale. Page 1 - The principle of Development involves also the existence of a latent germ of being — a capacity or potentiality striving to realize itself. This formal conception finds actual existence in Spirit; which has the History of the World for its theatre, its possession, and the sphere of its realization. Page 63 - It is accordingly probable that the great epochs of human progress have been identified, more or less directly, with the enlargement of the sources of subsistence. Page 57 - Ideas do not govern and overthrow the world : the world is governed or overthrown by feelings, to which ideas serve only as guides. References to this bookFrom other books
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