- INDEX AFFIRMATIONS of the herd, belief in normal, 39 AGE and the herd instinct, 86 ――, the predominance of, 87 AGE AND YOUTH, jealousy between, 86 ――, reactions of, in relation to sex, 84, 85 ALCOHOLISM, psychological meaning of, 58 ALTRUISM, instinctive meaning of, 122–124 ――, a natural instinctive product, 46 ――, not a judgment, 46 ――, energy of, 47 ANARCHISM, psychological basis of, 253 ANTHROPOMORPHISM in psychology, 14 BEER, and comparative psychology, 14 BELIEF, non-rational and rational, distinction of, 43, 44 ――, characters of, 44 BETHE, and comparative psychology, 14 BINET, 34 BREEDING against degeneracy, objections to, 64 ―― for rationality, objections to, 45 CAT AND DOG, instinctive differences in feeling, 98 CERTITUDE and knowledge, 35 CHURCH, the, in wartime, 154 CIVILIZATION, its influence on instinct in man, 93 CIVILIZATIONS, the decline of, 241, 242 COMMUNISM, psychological basis of, 254 CONFLICT in the adult, superficial aspects of, 52, 53 ―― in childhood and adolescence, 49 ―― in civilized man, 49 CONSCIENCE, peculiar to gregarious animals, 40 CONVERSATION as a mode of recognition, 119 DARWINISM as a herd affirmation, 39 DEDUCTIVE METHOD in psychology, 14 DUTY, 48 ENGLAND, social type, 201, 202 ――, morale of, 207–209 ――, and the spirit of the hive, 203–206 ENVIRONMENT OF THE MIND, importance of, 63 ――, need for rational adjustment of, 64 FREUD’S PSYCHOLOGY, general discussion of, 76 ――, as an embryology of the mind, 88 ――, biological criticism of, 77, 78 ――, evolution of the “normal” mind, 73 ――, hypothesis of mental development, 72 ――, importance of conflict, 72 ――, nature of mental conflict, 73 ――, suggested deficiencies of, 88, 89 ――, the unconscious, 74 GERMANY, features of government, 163–165 ――, aggressive social type, 167, 168 ――, social structure, 169, 170 ――, observed mental characters, 173 et seq. ――, conscious direction of the State, 163, 169, 191 ――, in relation to other nations, 179–182 ――, morale of, 182–188 ――, discipline, 189–191 ――, conditions of morale in, 193, 194 ――, objects of war with, 194–201 GOVERNMENT, Sources of, 257 GREGARIOUSNESS, not a superficial character, 19 ――, widespread occurrence in nature, 20 ―― in man, probably primitive, 22 ――, mental equivalents of, 31–33 ――, biological meaning of, 101, 102 ――, analogy to multicellular structure, 103 ――, meaning of wide distribution of, 103, 104 ――, specialization and co-ordination, 105, 106 ――, varieties of, 107, 108 ――, in insects, 105–107 ――, in mammals, 107, 108 ――, protective and aggressive, 110, 111 ―― in man, disadvantages of: disease, 133; resistiveness, 133 ―― in man, defects of specialization, 135; of homogeneity, 137 ――, aggressive, protective, socialized, 166, 167 GREGARIOUS ANIMAL, special characteristics of, 28 ――, general characteristics of, 29 ――, characters of, 108, 109 ――, fear in, 111 GREGARIOUS CHARACTERS IN MAN: intolerance of solitude, 113; religion, 113; sensitiveness to the herd, 114; mob violence and panic, 115; susceptibility to leadership, 115; recognition by the herd, 118 HAECKEL, 24 HERD INSTINCT, contrasted with other instincts, 47 ――, mode of action of, 48 ―― in the individual, special character of, 98 HISTORY, biological interpretation of, 99, 100 HUMAN CONDUCT, apparent complexity of, 13, 14 HUXLEY, antithesis of cosmical and ethical processes, 24 INSTINCT, definition of, 94 ――, mental manifestations of, 95 ――, disguised but not diminished in man, 99 INSTINCTIVE ACTIVITIES, obscured in proportion to brain-power, 97 INSTINCTIVE EXPRESSION, essential to mental health, 244, 245 INTELLECT, the, essential function of, 243 ――, biological aspect of, 255 JAMES, WILLIAM, introspective aspect of instinct, 15 LEADERSHIP, 116, 117 ―― in society, 246 ―― a substitute for common impulse, 247 ――, defects of, 247 ―― in Germany and in England, 248–250 LE BON, GUSTAVE, 26 MAN as an animal, a fundamental conception, 66, 67, 243 ―― as a gregarious animal, vagueness of earlier conceptions, 21 ―― as an instinctive animal, current view of, 93 MENTAL CAPACITY and instinctive expression, 121 MENTAL CONFLICT, discussed in relation to Freud’s doctrines, 79–81 ――, the antagonism to instinctive impulses, 82 MENTAL CONFLICT, source of the repressive impulse in, 82, 83 MENTAL INSTABILITY, and conflict, 57 ――, in modern society, 56, 57 MINORITIES and prejudice, 216, 217 MORALE, in England, 207–209 ――, in Germany, 182–188 ――, maintenance of, 147–155 ――, relation of homogeneity to, 144–147 ―― and officialism, 155 MULTICELLULARITY and natural selection, 18 MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS, the, 18 NATIONAL consciousness, 228 ――, simplicity of, in England, 228 NATIONAL feeling in war, 216–218 ――, growth and common impulse, 245, 246 NATIONAL industry and private enterprise, 257 NATIONAL types contrasted, 232 NON-RATIONAL OPINION, frequency of, 35, 36, 93, 94 “NORMAL” type of mind, 53, 54 NUEL and comparative psychology, 14 PACIFISM, 125 PEARSON, KARL, biological significance of gregariousness, 23, 24 ――, possibility of sociology as a science, 12 PERSONALITY, elements in the evolution of, 87 PREJUDICE, precautions against, 220–222 PRIMITIVE MAN, rigidity of mental life, 34 PSYCHO-ANALYSIS, characteristics of, 70, 71 PSYCHOLOGICAL ENQUIRY, biological method, 91, 92 ――, primitive introspective method, 68, 69 ――, objective introspective method of Freud, 70 PSYCHOLOGY of instinctive man, failure of earlier speculations, 16 RATIONALIZATION, 38 RATIONAL statecraft, need of, 241, 251 ――, basis of, 252, 253 RECOGNITION, 118, 119 RELIGION and the social animal, 50, 51 SEGREGATION of society, effects of, 215 SENSITIVENESS to feeling, importance and danger of, 64 SIDIS, BORIS, and the social instinct in man, 26, 27 SOCIAL EVOLUTION, in insects, relation to brain-power, 62 ――, in man, delayed by capacity for reaction, 62 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, continuous with individual psychology, 12 SOCIAL stability, an effect of war, 235, 236 SOCIAL instability, a sequel of war, 236, 237 SOCIOLOGY, definition of, 11 ――, psychological principles of, 255 SOLITARY AND GREGARIOUS ANIMALS, elementary differences, 17 SOMBART, WERNER, Germans the representatives of God, 177 SPEECH in man, and gregariousness, 34, 40 SPENCER, 24 STABLE-MINDED type, 54, 55 SUGGESTION and reason not necessarily opposed, 45 UEXKÜLL and comparative psychology, 14 UNSTABLE-MINDED type, 58, 59 VARIED REACTION and capacity for communication, importance to the herd of, 61 WAR, instinctive reactions to, 140–143 ―― and rumour, 144 ―― as a biological necessity, 126–132 WARD, LESTER, views on gregariousness in man, 24, 25 WELLS, H. G., impossibility of sociology as a science, 12 WOLF PACK, the, as an organism, 29
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