The Psychology of Peoples

Gustave Le Bon

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CHAPTER I THE SOUL OF RACES

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RACES

THE SOUL OF RACES

How the naturalists classify species — Application of their methods to man — Defective side of the classifications of the human races s.\ present in vogue — ^Foundations of a psychological description — The average types of the races — How they may be established by observation — The psychological factors which determine the average type of a race — The influence of ancestors and that of the immediate parents — Common psychological groundwork possessed by all the individuals of a race — Immense influence of bygon? generations on the present generation — Mathematical reasons for this influence — How the collective soul has spread from the family to the village, from the city to the surrounding district — Advantages and dangers of the conception of the city^Circumstances under which the formation of the collective soul is impossible — Example of Italy — How the natural races have given way to the historic races.

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