Abstract
DR. PERRY has made a study of some of the general principles underlying the development of human society, as he regards the most pressing need of the moment to be not the accumulation of facts, but the gaining of insight into their meaning and relationships. Every man is born as a member of a community, and cannot be considered apart from his social surroundings; by virtue of his ‘innate’ equipment or ‘biological inheritance’ he reacts in certain ways to his surroundings, but he has also a ‘social inheritance’.
The Primordial Ocean: an Introductory Contribution to Social Psychology
By Dr. W. J. Perry. Pp. xi + 380. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 15s. net.
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HADDON, A. An Interpretation of Social Institutions. Nature 136, 581–582 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136581a0
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