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" Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that" complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 1
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1903
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

1872 - 592 pages
...true philosophic power and a spirit imbued with reverence. 'Culture or civilisation,' says Mr. Tylor, 'taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of * ' Primitive Culture : Eosearches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy,...
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The permanence of Christianity, lectures preached before the University of ...

John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...passage. Comp. also Grant's Samp. Lect., p. 308. Mr. Tylor (TTist. Prim. Cult., I. p. 1) thus defines: "Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." 1 See Mr. Tylor, us, I. 24. Comp. Comte, Phil. Pc* n V. 252,257. 3...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 14, Part 1877

University of the State of New York - Education - 1878 - 146 pages
...the following from that erudite English student of civilization, Tylor, in Primitive Culture, says : "Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." (Vol. I., p. 1.) This being so, why not face it directly and without...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 440 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie , in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), "art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 472 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie, in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), " art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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The Permanence of Christianity: Considered in Eight Lectures Preached Before ...

John Richard Turner Eaton - Apologetics - 1879 - 420 pages
...passage. Comp. also Grant's Damp. Lect., p. 308. Mr. Tylor (His:. Prim. Cult., I. p. 1) thus defines : " Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which inclndes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired...
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On the Province of Methods of Teaching: A Professional Study

James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 476 pages
...definition come all that man has ever done in civilization and in history — ie, in civilization. " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole wliich includes knowledge, belief" (religious and otherwise), " art, morals, law, custom, and any other...
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Practical Suggestions to the American Tourist Visiting Europe for the ...

James Harmon Hoose - Europe - 1881 - 148 pages
...culture to extend one's observations and studies over wider ranges of materials, for as Tylor says : " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Speaking of galleries reminds me to make a suggestion about observing...
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Science, Volume 47

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 676 pages
...The book starts with Tylor's well-known and practically perfect definition of culture : " Culture ... is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...habits acquired by man as a member of society." The point is well made and forcibly driven home that since the science of psychology, even in its most...
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Science, Volume 45

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1917 - 692 pages
...languages, living, dead and half dead, with taste and manners, and are coming to view it as " that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." In this view we are approaching the idea of " Kultur " as set forth...
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