The Mind of Primitive Man a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Inst
The Mind of Primitive Man a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Inst
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
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The characteristics which belong to the influences of environment belong to the most fundamental traits of the body. Stature, form of head, and size of face, seem to be equally subject to these influences; and the modifications are the more marked, the less developed the organ in question at the time of birth, the longer it is therefore subject to the in- fluences of environment. TmYfact allows us to assert . With a high degree of confidence that mental traits as well as physical traits will be... modified by the effect of environ- ment. When, furthermore, we recall that we could not discover any proofs of the superiority of one type over another, we may feel safe when we state that the dangers to the vigor of the American nation, due to an influx of alien European types, is imaginative, not real. A number of data have also been obtained for a better RACE PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES 263 understanding of the significance of race-mixture. Let us recall that one of the most powerful agents modifying human types is the breaking-up of the continuance of certain strains in small communities by a process of rapid migration, which occurs both in Europe and in America, but with much greater rapidity in our country, because the heterogeneity of descent of the people is much greater than in the countries of Europe.
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