Quote of the day
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Born: April 10, 1857
Died: March 13, 1939 (aged 81)
Bio: Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality.
Known for:
- How natives think (1926)
- Primitive Mentality (1923)
- The 'soul' of the primitive (1928)
- Primitives and the supernatural (1935)
- Ethics and moral science