24 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 45

M. Levy-Bruhl has already added greatly to our knowledge, of

the primitive mind, and in The " Soul" of the Primitift (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.) he gives us the results of further industrious compilation and co-ordinating insight. His thesis is still the degree in which the primitive, in all his psychic processei, is a member of his group, thinking and feeling in terms not of his own individuality but of the family or tribe to-which he belongs. This is putting Professor Levy-Bruhl's thesis very barely : in the book it is worked out with clarity and fullness.

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