Abstract
THIS imposing undertaking, of which the first volume is under review, proposes to give direct evidence of the views held throughout Western civilization on primitivism and related ideas. Its chief interest lies in the compilation and classification of the various quotations selected by the authors; so that it is really with a source book about the conceptions of Nature as shown through the ages that we are concerned. This first volume deals with the Greek and Roman authors, of which it gives several and large extracts. Though there is little to say about the extracts themselves, it may be pointed out that half of the labour done is of little value, for each extract is followed by a translation. The latter alone would have been sufficient.
A Documentary History of Primitivism and Related Ideas
Vol. 1: Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity. By Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas.: with Supplementary Essays by W. F. Albright and P. E. Dumont. Pp. xv + 482. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 22s. 6d. net.
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A Documentary History of Primitivism and Related Ideas. Nature 138, 187 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138187d0
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