INSTINCTS OF THE HERD IN PEACE AND WAR

W. TROTTER

T. FISHER UNWIN LTD

LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE

February, 1916 First Published
March, 1917 Second Impression
July, 1917 Third Impression
November, 1919 Second Edition
March, 1920 Fifth Impression
February, 1921 Sixth Impression

PREFACE

The first two essays in this book were written some ten years ago and published in the Sociological Review in 1908 and 1909. They had formed a single paper, but it was found necessary to publish in two instalments at an interval of six months, and to cut down to a considerable extent the total bulk.

It was lately suggested to me that as the numbers of the review in which the two essays appeared were out of print, the fact that the subject concerned was not without some current interest might justify a republication. It was not possible to do this without trying to embody such fruits as there might be of ten years’ further speculation and some attempt to apply to present affairs the principles which had been sketched out.