CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published September, 1918
CONTENTS
| PART I—THE ORGANIC VIEW OF THE PROCESS OF HUMAN LIFE | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Tentative Method | [3] |
| II. | Organization | [19] |
| III. | Cycles | [30] |
| IV. | Conflict and Co-operation | [35] |
| V. | Particularism versus the Organic View | [43] |
| PART II—PERSONAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL PROCESS | ||
| VI. | Opportunity | [55] |
| VII. | Some Phases of Culture | [67] |
| VIII. | Opportunity and Class | [78] |
| IX. | The Theory of Success | [88] |
| X. | Success and Morality | [99] |
| XI. | Fame | [112] |
| XII. | The Competitive Spirit | [125] |
| XIII. | The Higher Emulation | [137] |
| XIV. | Discipline | [144] |
| PART III—DEGENERATION | ||
| XV. | An Organic View of Degeneration | [153] |
| XVI. | Degeneration and Will | [169] |
| XVII. | Some Factors in Degenerate Process | [180] |
| PART IV—SOCIAL FACTORS IN BIOLOGICAL SURVIVAL | ||
| XVIII. | Process, Biological and Social | [197] |
| XIX. | Social Control of the Survival of Types | [209] |
| XX. | Economic Factors; the Classes Above Poverty | [218] |
| XXI. | Poverty and Propagation | [226] |
| PART V—GROUP CONFLICT | ||
| XXII. | Group Conflict and Modern Integration | [241] |
| XXIII. | Social Control in International Relations | [255] |
| XXIV. | Class and Race | [268] |
| PART VI—VALUATION | ||
| XXV. | Valuation as a Social Process | [283] |
| XXVI. | The Institutional Character of Pecuniary Valuation | [293] |
| XXVII. | The Sphere of Pecuniary Valuation | [309] |
| XXVIII. | The Progress of Pecuniary Valuation | [329] |
| PART VII—INTELLIGENT PROCESS | ||
| XXIX. | Intelligence in Social Function | [351] |
| XXX. | The Diversification and Conflict of Ideas | [363] |
| XXXI. | Public Opinion as Process | [378] |
| XXXII. | Rational Control Through Standards | [382] |
| XXXIII. | Social Science | [395] |
| XXXIV. | The Tentative Character of Progress | [405] |
| XXXV. | Art and Social Idealism | [410] |
| Index | [425] | |
PART I
THE ORGANIC VIEW OF THE PROCESS
OF HUMAN LIFE
CHAPTER I
THE TENTATIVE METHOD
ADAPTIVE GROWTH—PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL FORMS—IMPERSONAL FORMS ARE ALIVE—INTERMEDIATE FORMS—THE TENTATIVE PROCESS—ILLUSTRATIONS OF TENTATIVE GROWTH—ORGANIC TENDENCY—THE KINDLING OF MIND
We see around us in the world of men an onward movement of life. There seems to be a vital impulse, of unknown origin, that tends to work ahead in innumerable directions and manners, each continuous with something of the same sort in the past. The whole thing appears to be a kind of growth, and we might add that it is an adaptive growth, meaning by this that the forms of life we see—men, associations of men, traditions, institutions, conventions, theories, ideals—are not separate or independent, but that the growth of each takes place in contact and interaction with that of others. Thus any one phase of the movement may be regarded as a series of adaptations to other phases.