ethology

[ Gr.ēthos an accustomed seat the manners and habits of mankind, the disposition, character.] The name given by Mr. John Stuart Mill to a science which he calls the science of character, or of the formation of character. It is the science which corresponds to the art of edu. cation in the widest sense of the term, including the formation of national as well as of individual char IMG:content-1164.png:[blocks in formation] Psychology is the science of the elementary laws of mind; ethology is the subordinate science which determines the kind of character produced in conformity to those general laws by any set of circumstances, physical or moral. Mr. John S. Mill considers ethics an art, and ethology a science. [ETHICS.] (J.S. Mill : Logic , bk. vi., ch. v.) *e-tho-po-et-ic, a. [Gr. ethos manner, habit, and poiētikos -making poieō to make.] Pertaining to or suitable for the formation of character.