TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTEE PAGE 



Consciousness of kind Language Natural selection 

 and group survival Importance of the bond of union 



Society restrains the individual Group coherence 

 and persecution Morals are the product of social rela- 

 tions. 



v THE INFLUENCES OF PHYSICAL ENVIBONMENT 121-170 



Climate, soil, food, and topography Man is dependent 

 upon natural surroundings Environment affects the 

 form of the human body Climate : the selective in- 

 fluence of extremes Climate affects achievement Cli- 

 mate and altitude The theory of pulsatory climatic 

 change Climatic cycles Climate and history 

 Temporary changes in climate Climate affects the 

 mode of life Topography and migration Topography 

 and civilization Topography and isolation The 

 materialistic interpretation of history The general 

 aspects of nature Physical environment and religion. 



vi SOCIAL HEREDITY 171-202 



Differences due to custom The importance of social 

 atmosphere The individual and collective experience 

 How habits and customs originate The force of custom 



Cultural differences entirely due to custom The folk- 

 ways The mores Education preserves the group 

 mores Perpetuation of custom by suggestion and imita- 

 tion The laws of communication The crowd Condi- 

 tions of suggestibility The laws of imitation 

 Imitation spreads in geometrical progression Contra 

 imitation Imitation spreads from above to below 

 Imitation is refracted by its media Custom and mode 

 imitation Imitation a conservative force Formalism. 



vn RACES AND PEOPLES 203-232 



Race differentiation Definition of race Factors of im- 

 portance in a theory of race The variable White race 



Giddings' theory of race The differentiation of the 

 European races The four European races The origin 

 of the White race in the Baltic region Aboriginal 

 American peoples The achievements of the European 

 races Achievements due to historical occurrences rather 

 than aptitude Importance of assimilation and the 

 economic factors. 



viu TBIBAL SOCIETY 233-277 



The means of determining the characteristics of social life 

 of prehistoric man Archeological remains The bond 

 of kin in primitive society The Iroquois Indians and 

 their confederacy The Iroquois clan Social organ- 

 ization of the Iroquois tribes The Iroquois phratry 

 The religious concept of Manitou Totemism among 

 primitive peoples Totemism among the British Colum- 

 bian Indians The Winter Ceremonial of the Kwakiutl 



