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1: Morgan, _Ancient Society_, p. 169.] [Footnote 152: Waitz-Gerland, _loc. cit._, Vol. VI, p. 20.] [Footnote 153: Ellis, _Tour through Hawaii_, p. 391.] [Footnote 154: Waitz-Gerland, _loc. cit._, Vol. VI, pp. 201-3.] [Footnote 155: J. Lippert, _Kulturgeschichte_, Vol. II, p. 342.] [Footnote 156: C.C. Closson, "The Hierarchy of European Races." _American Journal of Sociology_, Vol. III, pp. 315ff.] [Footnote 157: William James, _Principles of Psychology_, Vol. II, pp. 410ff.] [Footnote 158: _Journals of Two Expeditions_, Vol. II, p. 317.] [Footnote 159: I have alluded in more than one paper to the theory of tropisms, but this does not imply an acceptance of this theory as stated by Loeb (_Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mil dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen_), Vervorn (_Das lebendige Substanz_), and other representatives of the "mechanical" school of physiologists. The recent researches of Jennings seem to establish the view that reactions of the lower organisms to stimulation are less mechanical than has been assumed by this school. The current theory holds that "the action of the stimulus is directly on the motor organs of that part of the organism upon which the stimulus impinges, thus giving rise to changes in the state of contraction, which produce orientation." Jennings finds that "the responses to stimuli are usually reactions of the organisms as wholes, brought about by some physiological change produced by the stimulus.... The organism reacts as a unit, not as the sum of a number of independently reacting organs." H.S. Jennings, "The Theory of Tropisms," _Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of the Lower Organisms_ (Publications of the Carnegie Institution, 1904), pp. 106, 107.] [Footnote 160: Cf. J.R. Angell and Helen B. Thompson, "A Study of the Relations between Certain Organic Processes and Consciousness," _The University of Chicago Contributions to Philosophy_, Vol. II, No. 2.] [Footnote 161: Cf. John Fiske, _Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy_, Vol. II, pp. 342ff.] [Footnote 162: Cf. R. Steinmetz, _Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwickelung der Strafe_, Vol. I, p. 305.] [Footnote 163: See Groos, _The Play of Animals_, p. 283.] [Footnote 164: See e.g., Krafft-Ebing, _Psychopathia Sexualis_, 3. Aufl., p. 10; Adams, "Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England," _Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, 2d Se
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