CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published, September, 1902
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL | |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Are Aspects of the Same Thing—The Fallacy of Setting Them in Opposition—Various Forms of this Fallacy | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| SUGGESTION AND CHOICE | |
| The Meaning of these Terms and their Relation to Each Other—Individual and Social Aspects of Will or Choice—Suggestion and Choice in Children—The Scope of Suggestion Commonly Underestimated—Practical Limitations upon Deliberate Choice—Illustrations of the Action of the Milieu—The Greater or Less Activity of Choice Reflects the General State of Society—Suggestibility | [14] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS | |
| The Sociability of Children—Imaginary Conversation and its Significance—The Nature of the Impulse to Communicate—There is no Separation between Real and Imaginary Persons—Nor between Thought and Intercourse—The Study and Interpretation of Expression by Children—The Symbol or Sensuous Nucleus of Personal Ideas—Personal Physiognomy in Art and Literature—In the Idea of Social Groups—Sentiment in Personal Ideas—The Personal Idea is the Immediate Social Reality—Society must be Studied in the Imagination—The Possible Reality of Incorporeal Persons—The Material Notion of Personality Contrasted with the Notion Based on a Study of Personal Ideas—Self and Other in Personal Ideas—Personal Opposition—Further Illustration and Defence of the View of Persons and of Society Here Set Forth | [45] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| SYMPATHY OR COMMUNION AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY | |
| The Meaning of Sympathy as here Used—Its Relation to Thought, Sentiment, and Social Experience—The Range of Sympathy is a Measure of Personality; e.g., as Regards Power, Goodness or Badness, Sanity or Insanity—A Man’s Sympathies Reflect the Social Order—Specialization and Breadth—Sympathy Reflects Social Process in the Mingling of Likeness with Difference—Also in that it is a Process of Selection Guided by Feeling—The Meaning of Love in Social Discussion—Love in Relation to Self—The Study of Sympathy Reveals the Vital Unity of Human Life | [102] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| THE SOCIAL SELF—1. THE MEANING OF “I” | |
| The “Empirical Self”—“I” as a State of Feeling—Does Not Ordinarily Refer to the Body—As a Sense of Power or Causation—As a Sense of Speciality or Differentiation in a General Life—The Reflected or Looking-glass “I”—“I” is Rooted in the Past and Varies with Social Conditions—Its Relation to Habit—To Disinterested Love—How Children Learn the Meaning of “I”—The Speculative or Metaphysical “I” in Children—The Looking-glass “I” in Children—The Same in Adolescence—“I” in Relation to Sex—Simplicity and Affectation—Social Self-feeling Universal | [136] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| THE SOCIAL SELF—2. VARIOUS PHASES OF “I” | |
| Egotism and Selfishness—The Use of “I” in Literature and Conversation—Intense Self-feeling Necessary to Productivity—Other Phases of the Social Self—Pride versus Vanity—Self-respect, Honor, Self-reverence—Humility—Maladies of the Social Self—Withdrawal—Self-transformation—Phases of the Self Caused by Incongruity between the Person and his Surroundings | [179] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| HOSTILITY | |
| Simple or Animal Anger—Social Anger—The Function of Hostility—The Doctrine of Non-resistance—Control and Transformation of Hostility by Reason—Hostility as Pleasure or Pain—The Importance of Accepted Social Standards—Fear | [232] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| EMULATION | |
| Conformity—Non-conformity—The Two Viewed as Complementary Phases of Life—Rivalry—Hero-worship | [262] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| LEADERSHIP OR PERSONAL ASCENDENCY | |
| Leadership Defines and Organizes Vague Tendency—Power as Based upon the Mental State of the Person Subject to It—The Mental Traits of a Leader: Significance and Breadth—Why the Fame and Power of a Man often Transcend his Real Character—Ascendency of Belief and Hope—Mystery—Good Faith and Imposture—Does the Leader really Lead? | [283] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CONSCIENCE | |
| The Right as the Rational—Significance of this View—The Right as the Onward—The Right as Habit—Right is not the Social as against the Individual—It is, in a Sense, the Social as against the Sensual—The Right as a Synthesis of Personal Influences—Personal Authority—Confession, Prayer, Publicity—Truth—Dependence of Right upon Imagination—Conscience Reflects a Social Group—Ideal Persons as Factors in Conscience | [326] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| PERSONAL DEGENERACY | |
| Is a Phase of the Question of Right and Wrong—Relation to the Idea of Development—Justification and Meaning of the Phrase “Personal Degeneracy”—Hereditary and Social Factors in Personal Degeneracy—Degeneracy as a Mental Trait—Conscience in Degeneracy—Crime, Insanity, and Responsibility—General Aims in the Treatment of Degeneracy | [372] |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| FREEDOM | |
| The Meaning of Freedom—Freedom and Discipline—Freedom as a Phase of the Social Order—Freedom Involves Incidental Strain and Degeneracy | [392] |
| INDEX | [405] |
HUMAN NATURE AND THE
SOCIAL ORDER