CONTENTS. 



PAET II. 



PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. 



Introduction ; Importance of Psychology to the study of Mankind; Our 

 fragmentary knowledge of uncultivated Peoples ; Tendency to un- 

 dervalue such knowledge ; Too much reliance put upon Cranial 

 development; Morton's theory; Views of Engel, Lawrence, and 

 Prichard on Cerebral structure and Cranial form; Parchappe's 

 measurements of the various types ; Tables of Tiedemann ; Dis- 

 crepancy between his theory and his facts; Morton on Cranial 

 capacity ; Nott and Gliddon on Peruvian Skulls ; Morton on North 

 American Tribes; Huschke's measurements and comparisons; 

 Size of Skull no criterion of mental power ; Meaning of mental 

 "capacity"; No grounds for Psychical specific directions among 

 Mankind ; Gist of the Psychological question ; Method of investi- 

 gation to be pursued in following sections .... 259 



SECTION I. 



THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS OF MAN. 



The psychical differences between Man and Brute not apparently so 

 great as the physical ; Importance of this inquiry ; " Perfectibi- 

 lity/' and its application ; The Brute capable of improvement ; 

 Teaching of experience, and its limit in the Brute creation ; In- 

 stinct : its intellectual nature ; Cases of its cultivation ; Its 

 cultivation in Man; Language a specific human peculiarity; 

 Language in the lowest Races ; Grammatical structure the distin- 

 guishing feature between Man and Brute; Homogeneousness of 

 human nature ; Obscurity of psychical life of Animals ; Characte- 

 ristics of Man; External psychical manifestations; Personal or- 

 namentation; Social character of Man; Ethical importance of 

 property ; Human society ; Sensuality of the Negro ; Religious 

 notions universal; Religion in the lowest Races; Moral ideas; 

 Distinct sources of Religious and Moral ideas ; Origin of Religions 

 explained ; Superstitions ; Distinctions between Man and Brute ; 

 Use of the senses; Power of speech wanting in Brutes, and 

 reason thereof; Individuality of Man ; Language a test of Civiliz- 

 ation ; Sense of the beautiful ; The lower senses of Animals, and 

 their limited influence on character; Psychological value of the 

 action of the senses 269 



