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100	1		_aFerrero, Guglielmo, _d1871-1942
245	1	2	_aI simboli
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-15
508			_aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library)
520			_a"I simboli : in rapporto alla storia e filosofia del diritto, alla psicologia…." by Guglielmo Ferrero is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This essay investigates how symbols arise from human psychology and social needs, linking them to the development of law, religion, language, and institutions. It advances the idea that the law of least mental effort and mental inertia govern symbolic practices, with real consequences for justice, politics, and collective error. The opening of the work presents a brief preface defining the book as a preliminary exploration and crediting Paolo Marzolo’s Saggio sui segni as its chief inspiration, while arguing that understanding symbolism can mitigate social injustices born of intellectual weaknesses. The Introduction develops two governing principles: humans avoid mental labor (the law of least effort) and the mind is inert unless stirred by sensory input; attention is rare and tiring, most thinking is unconscious association, institutions evolve by small, practical steps, and sensations revive ideas and emotions (illustrated with hypnosis, dynamogenesis, and everyday examples). Part I begins by explaining “symbols of proof”: before writing and archives, societies used visible acts as evidence—delivery of a clod for land transfer, touching a door or hinge to convey a house, leading a bride from her home, couvade as a public claim of paternity, clothing or passing a limb over an adoptee, offering keys or weapons to signal submission, handing weapons to free a slave, opening doors or sending a freed person to a crossroads, rekindling home fire to mark new domicile, and throwing stones to denounce new works. The next chapter turns to “descriptive” symbols and primitive mnemonics (notches, knots, quipus, marked stones and columns, family staffs, spears and banners for investiture), showing how such concrete signs substituted for documents; it closes as the discussion moves from mnemonic devices toward the emergence of pictographic writing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cTorino: Bocca, 1893
653			_aSymbolism
653			_aSymbolism in law
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76877
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