TABLE OF CONTENTS 



[lAPTER PAGE 



Coiiscionsiii'ss of kind — T.:ui<;ua<;(' — Xatuial selection 

 and group survival — Importance of the l)on<l of union 



— Society restrains tlie individual — Group colierence 

 and persecution — INIorals are the product of social rela- 

 tions. 



V The Influences of Physical Environment 121-170 



Climate, soil, food, and topography — Man is dependent 

 upon natural surroundings — Environment affects the 

 form of the human body — Climate: tlie selective in- 

 fluence of extremes — Climate affects achievement — Cli- 

 mate and altitude — The tlieory 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 — 'iopogra])liy and isolation — The 

 matorialistic interpretation of history — Tlie general 

 aspects of nature -^ Physical environment and religion. 



VI Social Heredity • 171-202 



Differences due to custom — The imj)ortance of social 

 atinosi)liere — Tiie individual and collective experience — 

 lluw liabits and customs originate — Tlie force of custom 



— Cultural differences entirely due to custom — Tiie folk- 

 •yvays — 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 — 

 Iniilation is refracted by its media — Custom and mode 

 imitation — Imitation a conservative force — Formalism. 



VII 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 — Tlie 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. 



VIII Tribal Society 233-277 



The means of determining tlie 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 concei)t of Manitou — Totemism among 

 primitive peoples — Totemism among tlie P)ritish Colum- 

 bian Indians — 'I lie Winter Ceremonial of the Kwakiutl 



