"Phylogenetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bringing home to our legal brethren this important truth of absolute psychic determinism, that a man is what he is and acts as he does because of everything that has gone before him—because of ontogenetic as well as phylogenetic instinctive motives—it will have fully established its raison d'etre. For a realization of this truth would at once annihilate from our minds that deceptive notion of the "freedom of will" upon which our laws are based, and will be certain to bring about ...
— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck |
