Personal beauty and racial betterment.
"This book considers the concept of beauty as something which, whatever its importance for the individual, is for the race and for civilization of such profound importance that no other fundamental consideration of human welfare and progress can be divorced from it. I shall not touch upon the t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis :
C.V. Mosby Company,
1920.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book considers the concept of beauty as something which, whatever its importance for the individual, is for the race and for civilization of such profound importance that no other fundamental consideration of human welfare and progress can be divorced from it. I shall not touch upon the theme with the golden fingers of the artist, but with the unemotional digits of the psychologist. As a psychologist, I have the psychologist's prejudice, that ideals, intellectual analysis, and education are the fundamental forces of progress, and that laws, conventions, and customs serve to consolidate and make secure the gains achieved through these forces"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Internet Archive - Canadian Universities. Reprinted in part from the Psychological review, May 1918. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (95 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of Access: Internet. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |