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As Mr. Moto of the movies frequently says, ‘So sorry’ but we do not make much out of this small venture of 154 duo-decimo pages printed in large type.
Marriage and Prostitution, Hunger, Sex, Human Nature, Character and Personality, Individual Differences, Social Behavior and Intelligence are the chapter headings. The thesis is that human nature is composed of four elements which in various combinations give rise to his character and to his conduct. These four elements seem not to be specified.
Two factors in their interplay give rise to man's behavior. The desire for food is the foremost need. This wornout chestnut, quoted from Malthus, stamps the book for us as we have the prejudiced belief that racial continuance is of more significance dynamically than individual maintenance, no matter how one tries to get around the seeming antithesis of individual and/or race.
The life histories of many plants and a few animals exemplify this principle, notably in some ants whose fossil remnants now some 300 million years old show the same features of the species as of today. No advance, still ants.
The book does not interest us with its superficial ipse dixits.