Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization : considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization : considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CHAPTER X. Page Isolation of races unfavourable to development . . 30 CHAPTER XL What different phenomena take place in the mixture of races .31 CHAPTER XII. When the races composing a nation are not too unequal, a law of Fusion towards one type prevails . . .33 CHAPTER XIII. The law of assimilative Re-action . . . . .38 CHAPTER XIV. Re-action without Fusion between the constituent elements of nations, leads to disorganization . . . .41 CHAPTER XV. Re-action without Fusion between nations themselves . 44 CHAPTER XVI. Fusion and repose without Re-action, leads to decline and arrest of development ...... 46 CHAPTER XVII. Re-action in nations arrested by foreign power, leads to decline ........ 47 CHAPTER XVIII. Re-action, Fusion, and Repose, correspond with equivalent physiological phenomena . . . . .49 CHAPTER XIX. What social phenomena take place in nations where the races are unequal ....... 50 CHAPTER XX. The extinction and disappearance of races . . 55