From the EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE author of this book, Dr. Ernst Grosse, is a professor in the University of Freiburg in Baden. He is still a young man. He was born at Stendal, in the Altmark (Prussia), in 1862. From the Gymnasium , of his native place he went to the Universities of Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg, where he studied philosophy and the natural sciences. In 1884 he wrote a dissertation - Die Literatur - Wissenschaf t-wherein he attempted to show the necessity and possibility of treating the history of poetry ...
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From the EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE author of this book, Dr. Ernst Grosse, is a professor in the University of Freiburg in Baden. He is still a young man. He was born at Stendal, in the Altmark (Prussia), in 1862. From the Gymnasium , of his native place he went to the Universities of Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg, where he studied philosophy and the natural sciences. In 1884 he wrote a dissertation - Die Literatur - Wissenschaf t-wherein he attempted to show the necessity and possibility of treating the history of poetry after the methods of the natural sciences. In 1890 his critical analysis of Herbert Spencer's doctrine of the Unknowable appeared; it was entitled Lehre von dem Unkennbaren , and secured its author admission to the philosophical lectureship at the University of Freiburg. At this institution Dr. Grosse has really not confined himself strictly to philosophical lines; he has rather specialized in the fields of ethnology and sociology. Among his courses of lectures have been the following: General Ethnology, General Anthropology, Outlines of Sociology, Ethics from the Standpoint of Ethnology, Forms of the Family, Art from a Sociological Standpoint, Pictorial Arts of Japan, Art of Lower Peoples . In addition to his class lectures, Dr. Grosse conducts a Seminarium , in which a number of students are trained to conduct independent research in ethnology. Dr. Grosse is an instructor of unusual power, and is popular with his students, who quickly catch his earnestness and enthusiasm. In the Beginnings of Art, Dr. Grosse enters into a new field and applies a new method. The results are more than encouraging. The book makes no claim to exhaust the subject, but aims to suggest and to incite other workers. To find "beginnings," Dr. Grosse confines his attention to the few most primitive peoples now living; he distinctly criticizes those writers who have drawn illustrations of beginnings from peoples at every stage of culture. His criticism is just, though rather sweeping, for there can be no question that quite primitive conceptions are to be found among peoples well up the scale of culture, either as survivals or as undeveloped culture elements. Still, it is safer to do as Dr. Grosse does, and study only such material as is supplied by the lowest stage of culture to be found among existing tribes.
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