This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...state some peculiar modification of general condition and tone. The higher mental interests of mankind might thus at different times be modified by various emotional conditions, sometimes by a relaxed apathetic state, sometimes by a state of great and anxious excitability, and it may possibly be the fact that the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...state some peculiar modification of general condition and tone. The higher mental interests of mankind might thus at different times be modified by various emotional conditions, sometimes by a relaxed apathetic state, sometimes by a state of great and anxious excitability, and it may possibly be the fact that the peculiar influences of outward Nature upon man in every age have left their traces in the productions of that age, in the colouring of its poetry, in the nature of its favourite superstitions, in the general direction ot its intellectual powers. But the most necessary rule of such investigations would be not to try and find what is not there and not to over-estimate these influences of Nature as compared with the much more obvious influences which are to be sought in the uninterrupted transmission by education of the same wants, problems, interests, and sorrows from one generation to another, and in the solidarity of social life. The assertions of parallelism between natural and spiritual revolutions are for the most part innocent of any such cautious procedure. It is a? easy to understand how widespread and devastating disease is developed on the direct path of immediately causal influence, by a great social upheaval with all its train of unusual bodily and mental exertion, privations, and wretched substitutes for the ordinary means of subsistence, as it is to understand how, conversely, striking natural events, earthquakes, inundations, or epidemics have caused social movements to result from physical necessities. Accounts of plagues in times most remote from one another unite with melancholy unanimity in showing us how quickly all the moral obligations of order, duty, and affection are dissolved under the influence of terror, how excited and ter...
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