The Influence of Race in History
Author | : Gustave Le Bon |
Publisher | : Blurb |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 0368467368 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780368467363 |
Rating | : 4/5 (363 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Influence of Race in History written by Gustave Le Bon and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four important works which provided the first major scientific proof of the importance of race in civilization, and the correlation between brain volume, race intelligence, and achievement, written by the famous French founder of the science of crowd psychology. "The Influence of Race in History" analyzes the role of race in influencing history, pointing out that group psychology, and not anatomical characteristics, are the real racial divides, and that "peoples whose mental constitution is similar will have similar destinies when they are placed in analogous circumstances." "How Races and Peoples Transform their Civilizations" shows, with examples, how culture is not directly transferrable between races, and that higher culture can never be transferred to those races who were incapable of creating it in the first place. "Anatomical and Mathematical Researches into the Laws of the Variations of Brain Volume and their Relation to Intelligence" is without question one of the most significant and all-encompassing studies on human brain and skull volume and their relation to intelligence, for which the author was awarded prizes by the French Academy of Sciences and the Anthropology Society of Paris. In this paper, Le Bon proves conclusively the existence of differences in cranial capacity and brain volume between races, and between different levels of intelligence within any given race. "On the Capacity of the Skulls of a Certain Number of Celebrated Men" provides further examples of leading men who prove the conclusions of the link between cranial capacity and Civilizational achievement.