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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Subjects: Personality Character Mind and body Psychology / General Psychology / Personality Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE ENVIBONMENTAL BASIS OF CHARACTER From the time any one of us is born into the world he is subject to the influences of forces that reach backwards to the earliest days of the race. The " dead hand " rules, -- yes, and the dead thought, belief and custom continue to shape the lives and character of the living. The invention and development of speech and writing have brought into every man's career the mental life and character of all his own ancestors and the ancestors of every other man. A child is not born merely to a father and a mother. He is born to a group, fiercely and definitely prejudiced in custom, belief and ideal, with ways of doing, feeling and thinking which it seeks to impose on each of its new members. Family, tribe, race and nation all demand of each accession that he accept their ideals, habits and beliefs on peril of disapproval and even of punishment. And man is so constituted that the approval and disapproval of his group mean more to him even than his life. The social setting into which each one is born is his " social heredity." " The heredity with which civilization is most supremely concerned," says Sir Edwin Bay Lankester, " is not that which is inborn in the individual. It is the social inheritance which constitutes the dominant factor in human progress." 1 It is thissocial inheritance which shapes our characters, rough- hewn by nature. It is by the light of each person's social inheritance that we must also judge his...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150494581
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150494581
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 345 gr


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