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THIS encyclopædic work, of which we have here two volumes, is a prolegomena to sociology. Wundt is tracing the evolution of language, art, myth, religion, and custom from their beginnings to the civilisation of the present day. In his own phrase, he is giving us a study of the development of “mental communities,” those “changing pluralities of mental unions which are interlaced in the most manifold ways and become more and more numerous as development progresses.” The basis of such development is language.
Völkerpsychologie, eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mytlius und Sitte.
By Wilhelm Wundt. Zweiter Band, Mythus und Religion, Dritter Teil, 1909. Pp. xii+792. Price 18 marks. Dritter Band, Die Kunst, second edition, 1908. Pp. x+564. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann.) Price 12 marks.
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CRAWLEY, A. Völkerpsychologie, eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mytlius und Sitte . Nature 80, 334–335 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080334a0
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