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DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nOBIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n\n| 308  \u003Cbr>Z  \u003Cbr>Schomer,Abraham Shaikewitz,1876-  \u003Cbr>Box 192  \u003Cbr>llypothesis of the origin of the human intellect,  \u003Cbr>subnitted to the third annual meoting of the Na-  \u003Cbr>tional conference on the soience of politics,Co-  \u003Cbr>lumbia university,September 7-12,1925;by Abra-  \u003Cbr>ham s.Schomer.liew Yorkj 1925.  \u003Cbr>t4]p.23 cm.  \u003Cbr>OML1ED  \u003Cbr>0   |\n| --- |\n|  |\n\n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n Reproductions may not be made without permission trom Columbia University Libraries.              \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          mmREDUCTION RATIO:      10:/  \nIB  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA (IIA)  \nIIB  \nNITIALS:                    B  \nDATE FILMED:                    5-22-97  \n          23394                 \n## TRACKING\\#:\n\nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# BIBLIOGRAPHIC 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\u003Cbr>Conference on the Science of Politics  \u003Cbr>COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY  \u003Cbr>September,7—12,1925  \u003Cbr>By  \u003Cbr>ABRAHAM S.SCHOMER  \u003Cbr>192  \u003Cbr>二   |  |\n| --- | --- |\n\ni  \nau  \n# HYPOTHESIS OFTHE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT\n\n\"Science lives on fact,but it has alwaysbeen great generalizations which have giventhem birth,\"—Dr.Gustave Le Bon.  \nPoLITICS is a manifestation of the highest order ofmental activity —the human Intellect;hence the firstproblem of a science of Politics,is the ascertainment,ifpossible,of the origin of the human Intellect.So long asthe human Intellect continues to be a mystery,and regardedas a“spirit”,a“soul”,a“supernatural”manifestation,一so long there can be no science of Politics.  \nAfter many years of patient introspection and per-servering research,the present writer,speaking in allhumility,is thorougly convinced that he has been success-ful in tracing the origin of the human intellect to thenervous feelings of fascination and fear of the face of themoon —this,experienced by the prehistoric ancestor ofman on the jungle tree.  \nThis steady and long-continued neurosis of fascina-tion and fear of the constantly appearing,changing,disappearing and reappearing face of the moon,stimulatedthe psychosis(mental activity)of this animal,causingslow but sure variations in the brain,and developing itsintellect part.These brain variations and developments,however slight,were transmitted by this exceptionallynervous individual,through heredity,to its offspring.  \nDuring the life of this parent,its offspring werepsychologically affected by its manifestations of fascina-tion and fear of the face of the moon,and they too were  \n、,.4  \nseized by these feelings,and they too began to manifestthem in the same manner as their parent.  \nThus always stimulated by this neurosis,the brain ofthe members of this family kept on undergoing variationsand developments in each generation and with each suceed-ing generation for a 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