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- Abbott, Lyman, 187.
- Achilles, 110.
- Addams, Jane, 25, 137, 190, 191, 244, 350, 385.
- Agreement, not essential to public opinion, 122.
- Alphabet, 417.
- Amenomori, 331.
- Anarchism, 196;
- in the church, 374.
- Anarchy and spoliation, fear of, 276.
- Anderson, W. L., 83.
- Ann Arbor, school carnival in, 408.
- Architecture, as communication, 79, 172;
- disorganization in, 390 ff.
- Aristocracy, hereditary, 210, 257, 282 f.
- Army, German, 324;
- American, 325.
- Art, visible society a work of, 21;
- collective judgments on, 125;
- in relation to democracy, 157 ff.;
- spirit of, 244 f., 321;
- disorganization in, 390 ff.
- Arts, non-verbal, as communication, 77 ff.
- Assemblage, public, 109.
- Athletic sports, 163, 199.
- Attenuation of sentiment, 178.
- Augustine, 374.
- Austen, Jane, 102.
- Autocratic control of industry, 262 ff.
- Average-theory of group action, 123 ff.
- Bacon, Francis, 76, 318.
- Bagehot, W., 178.
- Baring-Gould, 325.
- Biological type, the, 315 f.
- Birth-rate, decline of, 358 ff.
- Blame, 15 ff., 201 ff.
- Bourget, Paul, 160, 171.
- Brooks, John G., 45.
- Brotherhood, sentiment of, 189 ff.
- Browne, Sir T., 70, 153.
- Brownell, W. C., 161, 166, 321, 332 ff.
- Bryce, James, 85, 136, 182, 276, 280, 369, 381.
- Buck, Winifred, 43.
- Burckhardt, 354.
- Burke, 330.
- Burne-Jones, 168.
- Burroughs, John, 93.
- Camp-fire, Assembly around, 109 f.
- Carlyle, 167, 323.
- Carnegie, A., views of on wealth, 281.
- Capitalist class, ascendency of, 256 ff.
- Caste, 209 ff.
- Change, social, in relation to caste, 217, 225, 231.
- Check-book, in social reform, 415 f.
- Chicago, 212;
- recreation centres in, 408.
- Child, the, his relation to the world, 315 ff.
- Children, development of social consciousness in, 7 ff., 72;
- reforms in the interest of, 318 f.;
- “spoiled,” 358 ff.
- China, lack of communication in, 86.
- Chinese, 186, 198.
- Chivalry, 224.
- Choice, excessive, 172;
- versus mechanism, 323;
- spirit of, 359 ff., 365 ff.
- Christianity, 52, 73, 136, 166, 203 ff., 253, 304, 373 ff.
- Church, the, 204, 322, 342, 347, 370;
- disorganization in, 372 ff.
- City life, 94, 178 f., 409.
- Class animosity, 301 ff.
- Class atmosphere, 272.
- Class-consciousness, 240 ff., 275, 284 ff., 305.
- Class struggle, the, 241, 277, 286.
- Classes, social, 179 f., 209-309;
- open, 239 ff.;
- open, in relation to wealth, 248 ff.;
- capitalist, 256 ff.;
- organization of the ill-paid, 284 ff.;
- hostile feeling between, 301.
- Classical culture, 388 f.
- Clergymen, facial expression of, 67.
- Commercialism, 167;
- in relation to art, 173 f., 261, 346, 383 ff.
- Commons, J. R., 286.
- Communication, 54;
- significance of, 61 ff.;
- growth of, 66 ff.;
- modern, a cause of enlargement and animation, 80 ff.;
- modern, in relation to individuality, 91 ff.;
- in relation to superficiality and strain, 98 ff.;
- in relation to crowds, 151, 180, 191;
- in relation to caste, 226 f., 338 f.
- Community ideal, the, 33 ff., 52, 305.
- See also We-feeling and Moral unity.
- Compensation, principle of, in social organization, 55 ff., 115, 118.
- Competition, 35, 56, 158, 199 ff., 210, 226 f., 235, 239 f., 244, 323.
- See also Survival of the fittest.
- Comte, 237.
- Conflict. See Competition.
- Confusion, in relation to art and literature, 162 ff.;
- to sentiment, 193.
- See also Disorganization.
- Conquest, a cause of caste, 221.
- Conscience, public, 387.
- Consciousness, growth of in history, 107 ff.
- Consciousness, public, 10 ff., 82, 411 ff.
- Consciousness, social, 4 ff.;
- development of in children, 7 ff., 71, 350.
- Conservatism, 327 ff.
- Constitution of the United States, 314, 398.
- Convention and tradition, 335 ff.
- Conventionalism, 339 ff.
- Cornish, F. W., 224.
- Cost of change, 418 f.
- Country life, effects of, 93 f., 178 f.
- Courage, 187.
- Creeds, 375 ff., 418.
- Crime, 202 f.
- Crises, commercial, 418.
- Crowd excitement, in relation to democracy, 149 ff.
- Crowds, psychology of, 149 ff.
- Cuba, 322.
- Culture groups and types, 163 ff., 243, 388 f.
- Dante, 36, 70, 165, 173, 190, 388.
- Darwin, 29, 67, 189, 295, 321.
- Dead-level theory, 93, 159 ff.
- Declaration of Independence, 48, 134.
- Dellenbaugh, F. S., 108.
- Demand, economic, often degrading, 141.
- Democracy, among children, 45;
- source of its ideals, 51;
- dependent upon printing, 75;
- relation to modern communication, 85 ff.;
- an inadequate name, 86;
- as mental organization, 105-205;
- a discipline in self-control, 152;
- and distinction, 157 ff.;
- in relation to wealth, 278 ff.;
- to childhood, 318, 329, 334, 398.
- Descartes, 5 ff.
- Determinism, moral value of, 19 f.
- De Tocqueville, Alexis, 27, 92, 99, 101, 116, 159, 172, 175, 235, 329, 398.
- Devine, E. T., 297.
- Dialects, revival of, 96.
- Diffusion, a result of modern communication, 81;
- possibilities of, 87;
- not opposed to selection, 88;
- zeal for, 174;
- the age of, 175.
- Dill, Samuel, 114.
- Discussion. See Opinion.
- Disorganization, spiritual, 162 ff., 347 ff.;
- in the family, 356 ff.;
- in the church, 372 ff.;
- in industry, 383 ff.;
- in education and culture, 386 ff.;
- in fine art, 389 ff.
- Distinction, apt to cause isolation, 138 f.;
- in relation to democracy 157 ff.
- Divorce, 365 ff.
- Domestic service, 367.
- Donovan, J., 109.
- Dorsey, J. O., 111.
- Dress, 305.
- Drink, 293 f.
- Economic Interpretation of History, 255.
- Economic system, confusion in, 383.
- Education, 48, 87, 117, 227, 234;
- formalism in, 345 f., 349;
- of women, 363 ff.;
- disorganization in, 386 ff.;
- public, 406.
- Efficiency, social, depends upon freedom, 234 f.
- Ellis, H., 364.
- Emerson, 125, 167, 176, 246, 342, 385.
- Emulation, 307.
- Energy, persistence of, 328.
- England, 274, 281, 301, 302, 340, 358, 397 f.
- Ennui, 99.
- Environment, 214 f., 230, 291 ff., 316 f.
- Equality, 180, 257, 301 f.
- Ethics. See Morality.
- Eugenics, 296.
- Facial Expression, 66 f.
- Family, 10 f.;
- as a primary group, 24;
- as a source of primary ideals, 24, 48, 52;
- traditional careers in, 236 f.;
- disorganization in, 356 ff.
- Fashion, 336 ff.
- Fellowship, 174 f., 242 ff.
- Ferguson, on architecture, 391.
- Feudal system, 223 ff.
- Formalism, 56, 198, 342 ff., 376 ff., 418.
- Fort Sumter, attack on, 154.
- France, 155, 166, 275, 330, 331 ff., 398, 408.
- Frederick the Great, 86.
- Freedom, as a primary ideal, 46;
- two aspects of in relation to classes, 245 f., 275, 325.
- Free-will, 20.
- Galton, Francis, 214, 317.
- “Gangs” of boys, as primary groups, 49.
- Garibaldi, 325.
- Genius, 348.
- Germany, 27, 248, 306, 324.
- Gesture, 66, 69.
- Gibbon, Edward, 73, 77.
- God, 188, 196, 203, 205, 352, 353, 354, 372, 373, 380.
- Goethe, 78, 165, 367, 401.
- Gossip, organized, 84 f.
- Government, as public will, 402 ff.;
- sphere of, 403 ff.;
- transformation of, 411.
- Greece, refinement in, 180.
- Greed of gain, 36, 254.
- Green, J. R., 108.
- Groups, primary, 23 ff.
- See also Types, Classes and Institutions.
- Gummere, F. B., 107, 222.
- Hamerton, P. G., 140, 356, 390.
- Hartt, R. L., 94.
- Haste, 170 ff.
- Heine, 95.
- Herbert, Geo., 287.
- Heredity and environment, 294 f., 316.
- Higginson, T. W., 127, 136, 282.
- History, organic view of, 255.
- Holbein, 67.
- Honesty and policy, 184.
- Hopefulness, 187.
- Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus), 110.
- Hostile feeling, 199 ff., 301 ff.
- House of Commons, 341.
- Howard, Geo. E., 24.
- Howells, W. D., 271.
- Human nature, relation to primary groups, 28 ff.;
- dependent upon communication, 62 f., 419.
- Humanism of sentiment, 178, 180 ff.
- Huxley, 190.
- Idealism, Organic, 412 f.
- Ideals, primary, 32 ff., 51 ff., 113;
- of groups, 126 f., 165 f.
- Imitation, two kinds of, 336.
- Immigrants, 294, 295.
- Immigration, 169, 220 f., 369.
- India, caste in, 224.
- Indians, American, kindness among, 41;
- individuality among, 110 f.
- Individual, in relation to institutions, 313 ff.
- Individualism, in art, 166, 243, 347 ff.;
- domestic, 357 ff.
- See also Disorganization.
- Individuality, how affected by modern communication, 91 ff.;
- in tribal life, 110;
- development of in history, 112, 116 ff.;
- in relation to democracy, 160 ff.;
- moral, 201 f.;
- enjoyment of, 307;
- in harness, 324, 332 ff.
- Inheritance principle, 209 ff.
- Institutions, in relation to privileged classes, 140 f., 186, 313-392;
- and the individual, 313 ff.
- Intolerance, 344.
- Introspection, sympathetic, 7.
- Italy, 167, 185, 186, 347, 348.
- James, Henry, 84, 171, 174.
- James, William, 20, 138, 253.
- Japan, 328, 330.
- Jesus, 16, 203 ff., 377.
- Jevons, W. S., 407.
- Johnson, Doctor, 93.
- Johnson, Samuel (the orientalist), 225.
- Justice, sentiment of, 181.
- Keller, Helen, 62 f.
- Kempis, Thomas à, 137, 138.
- Kindness, 40 ff., 189 ff.
- Kropotkin, P. A., 41, 189.
- Labor Movement, 196, 242, 243, 258, 275, 284 ff.
- Labor troubles, 308.
- Lamb, Charles, 88.
- Latin language, 74.
- Law students, 141.
- Lawfulness as a primary ideal, 42 ff.
- Lawyers, 269.
- Leadership, 135 f., 402.
- LeBon, G., 149, 153.
- Lecky, W. H. H., 96, 144.
- Lee, H. C., 75.
- Lee, Joseph, 34, 43.
- Lincoln, 76.
- Lindsey, Judge, 39.
- Literature, in relation to democracy, 157 ff.;
- growth of refinement in, 179;
- disorganization in, 390;
- of social knowledge, 411 f.
- Lloyd, A. H., 319.
- Lloyd, H. D., 140, 263, 264.
- Longinus, 115.
- Lowell, J. R., 101, 378.
- Loyalty, 38 f., 182.
- Luther, 75.
- Luxury, 306, 359.
- Macaulay, on democracy, 143 f.
- Macchiavelli, 184.
- Mackenzie, J. S., 92.
- Maladjustment, as a cause of poverty, 293 f.
- Malthus, 295.
- Manners, tendency of, 197 ff.
- Mantegna, 320.
- Manual training, 304.
- Marriage, 282, 356 ff.
- See also Family.
- Masses, in relation to public opinion, 135 ff.
- Middle ages, caste in, 222 ff., 267.
- Might and right, 320.
- Milton, 76.
- Mind, organic view of, 3 ff.;
- democratic, 107-207.
- Mind-cure doctrines, 297.
- Mir, Russian, 26.
- Mob. See Crowd.
- Money-value, nature of, 265 f.
- Montesquieu, 86, 116, 142, 261, 302.
- Moral aspect, of the organic view of mind, 13 ff.;
- of institutions, 322;
- of public will, 397.
- Moral principles, need of settled, 200 f., 307.
- Moral unity, 33, 133, 182, 385.
- Morality, of group action, 124;
- specialization in, 130;
- mode of progress in, 131;
- of capitalists, 259 f.;
- international, 322;
- the larger, 413 ff.
- Music as communication, 77, 79.
- Napoleon, 184.
- Nationality, persistence of, 96.
- Natural Right, doctrine of, relation to primary ideals, 47 f.
- Natural selection, 189, 294 ff.
- Nature and nurture, 214.
- Negro question, 218 ff.
- Negroes, 295.
- Neighborhood, the, 24 ff., 49.
- Newspaper, in modern communication, 83 ff., 151, 192 f., 270 f., 346.
- North Carolina, mountain people of, 94.
- O’Brien, R. L., 346.
- Omahas, war party among, 110 f.
- Opinion, public, 10 f., 85, 108, 121 ff., 144 f., 307 f., 406.
- See also Democracy.
- Opportunity, freedom of, 233 ff., 245 f., 257 f.
- Opposition, morality of, 37.
- See also Competition.
- Organic conception of society, 3 ff., 13 ff., 255.
- See also table of contents.
- Organic idealism, 412 f.
- Organization, social, 3, 21, 22.
- See also table of contents.
- Organizing capacity, 266.
- Originality of masses, 135.
- Ostrogorski, 99.
- Painting, 77 ff., 179, 389 f.
- Paralysis, general, 103.
- Pater, Walter, 14, 79.
- Patten, Simon N., 299, 409, 415.
- Paul, St., on truth, 182.
- Personality, relation of to social organization, 53;
- to specialization, 130 f.;
- interest in at elections, 143; 161, 214 f.
- See also Individuality.
- Persons, judgment of by the masses, 142 ff.
- Philanthropy, 48, 195, 299, 355, 416.
- Plato, 86, 125, 159.
- Play-group, the, 24 ff., 34 ff.
- Politics, rule of public opinion in, 132 ff.
- Portraits, old and new, 101 f.
- Poverty, 290 ff., 418.
- Power, the deepest of instincts, 251;
- social nature of, 264 ff.
- Prestige of wealth, 271 f.
- Prigs, lack of in France, 333.
- Primary groups, 23 ff.
- Primary ideals, 32 ff.
- See also Ideals.
- Principles, supplanting formulas, 417.
- Printing, the basis of democracy, 71 ff.
- Privilege, apt to cause isolation, 138.
- Professional classes, 269 f.
- Progress, irregularity of, 114;
- a modern idea, 399;
- cost of, 418.
- Public opinion. See Opinion, public.
- Punishment, 15 ff., 202 f.
- Race Question, 218 ff.
- Race-capacity, 28 f., 44 f.
- Realism, 183 ff.
- Refinement, tendency toward, 179 f.
- Religion, 372 ff.
- See also Christianity.
- Renaissance, 179, 348.
- Resentment, 202 f.
- Responsibility, 18 ff.
- Roberts, Lord, 348.
- Rodin, 321.
- Roman Empire, 114 f., 349.
- Roscommon, Earl of, 153.
- Ross, E. A., on the mob-mind, 149;
- on the larger morality, 413.
- Rules of the game, 43 ff., 200, 307.
- Ruskin, 167.
- Russia, 183.
- Sargent, 101.
- Schiller, 266.
- Sculpture, 77, 339.
- Sedgwick, H. D., 101 f.
- Self-consciousness, inseparable from social consciousness, 5 ff.
- Self-expression, the fundamental need, 304, 409.
- Self-words, a study of the early use of, 8.
- Sentiment, how affected by communication, 88;
- individuality of, 97;
- leadership in by the masses, 135 ff., 142 ff.;
- meaning and trend of, 177 ff.;
- religious, 372, 379.
- Service, as a primary ideal, 39;
- spirit of, 196, 260 f.;
- ideal of, 302 f.;
- indirect, 415 f.
- Sexes, differentiation of, 364 f.
- Sighele, 149.
- Sill, E. W., 97.
- Smiles, Samuel, 246.
- Smith, A. H., 198.
- Social consciousness. See Consciousness.
- Social salvation, 380.
- Social structure, increasing simplicity and flexibility of, 416 f.
- Socialism, 51, 196, 276 ff., 285, 308;
- municipal, 407 ff.;
- state, 409 ff., 412.
- Sociology, 197, 389, 411.
- Solidarity, of classes, 276 f.;
- of nations, 330 ff.
- Spahr, Charles, 309.
- Spain, class feeling in, 301.
- Specialization, of opinion, 126 ff.;
- not opposed to democracy, 147 f.;
- in philanthropy, 416.
- Speech, origin and growth of, 68;
- mental and social functions of, 69 ff., 109, 417.
- Spencer, Herbert, 92.
- Spencer and Gillen, 29, 41.
- Spinoza, 19, 20.
- Strain, 98 ff., 170 ff.
- Strike, general, 277.
- Struggle for existence, among ideas, 417.
- See also Competition, Class struggle, Survival of the fittest.
- Students, university, 274.
- Sturgis, Russell, 174.
- Suffrage, popular, 146.
- Suggestion, 150 ff., 328.
- Suicide, 103.
- Sullivan, Miss, Helen Keller’s teacher, 62 f.
- Superficiality, 98 ff., 117, 170 ff.
- Survival of the fittest, 189, 258, 294 ff.
- See also Competition.
- Sweating system, 400 f.
- Symbols, religious, 373 ff.
- Symonds, J. A., 375.
- Sympathy, as the basis of reform, 14 f.
- Tarde, Gabriel, 327, 329, 336.
- Tariff, 406.
- Telegraph, effect of on language, 346.
- Tennyson, 167.
- Thackeray, 361.
- Thoreau, 34, 164 f., 176, 195, 249, 253.
- Tolstoi, 167, 401.
- Tout, T. F., 223.
- Tradition and convention, 335 ff.
- Traditionalism, 339 ff.
- Tranquillity, lack of in art, 390.
- Transition, distinguished from democracy, 158 f.
- Truth, as a primary ideal, 39;
- sentiment of, 182 ff.
- Types, social, 22, 163, 340.
- Unconscious Social Relations, 4, 112.
- Unfit, are the poor the?, 295 f.
- Uniformity of American life, 166 f.
- Unions. See Labor movement.
- University of Michigan, supported by popular suffrage, 145.
- Van Brunt, Henry, 172, 391.
- Variation of ideas, 343.
- Veblen, T. V., 119.
- Vulgarity of wealth and privilege, 139 f.
- Watts’ Mammon, 346.
- Wealth, 136;
- inheritance of, 229, 236;
- as the basis of open classes, 248 ff.;
- comparative ascendency of, 278 f.;
- prestige of, 303 f.;
- use of, 304 f.
- We-feeling, 23, 31, 33 ff., 189 ff., 298, 333, 351, 415.
- Westermarck, Edward, 24, 40 f.
- Wharton, Edith, 102.
- Whately, 150.
- Whitman, 176, 195 f., 303.
- Will, public, 395-419;
- government as, 402 ff.;
- some phases of, 411 ff.
- See also Opinion, public.
- Winckelmann, 78.
- Women, opening of new careers to, 362 ff.
- Woods, Robert, 43, 49.
- Woolman, John, 413.
- Wordsworth, 165, 317.
- Worry, a cause of poverty, 297.
- Writing, social function of, 72 ff.
- Wrongs, social, not willed, 400 f.
- Young Men, in relation to classes, 223, 273 f., 327.