The Process of Government a Study of Social Pressures
The book The Process of Government a Study of Social Pressures was written by author Arthur Fisher Bentley Here you can read free online of The Process of Government a Study of Social Pressures book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Process of Government a Study of Social Pressures a good or bad book?
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495. 98 'nil'. I'KOCESS OF GOVERNMENT strong nicn. ' In I'aniKuay institutions bend under "woman's stronger passions. '" Jealousy is a pervading motive in building up institutions. ' T'lic sjjring ])rocreation festivals are explained as survivals of the i)rimilive human "rutting" instinct/ The "absorbing i)assion for one "—otherwise the "true monogamous instinct"— is a j)owerful obstacle to polygyny. S "Fraternal l)encv()lence" is resjwnsible for polyandry under some conditions. *^ The laws of ...Kurope against divorce took their origin in an "idealis- tic religious commandment. "^ "Endogamy is due to a want of symi)athv, and has declined before altruism and religious tolera- tion. "'* In all cases he takes a psychic factor to correspond with one set of customs, which happens to be the prevading one, and then says that all customs that do not correspond are due to perversions of that factor, or to its suppression by some other psychic factor. ' On the other hand when Westermarck finds a feeling or instinct in current use as an explanation of something or other, and his broader knowledge of facts enables him to annihilate it, he per- forms the operation with pleasure and precision.
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