PREFACE

conclusions, and is quite without pretensions to advise upon the conduct of affairs. August, 1919.

• CONTENTS 5 PREFACE 8 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION HERD INSTINCT AND ITS BEAR­ING ON THE PSY­CHOL­O­GY OF CIV­I­LIZED MAN 11 INTRODUCTION 15 PSYCHOLOGICAL AS­PECTS OF IN­STINCT 18 BIOLOGICAL SIG­NIF­I­CANCE OF GRE­GAR­I­OUS­NESS 23 MENTAL CHAR­AC­TER­IS­TICS OF THE GRE­GAR­I­OUS AN­I­MAL SOCIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE PSY­CHOL­O­GY OF HERD IN­STINCT 60 GRE­GAR­IOUS­NESS AND THE FU­TURE OF MAN SPECULATIONS UPON THE HU­MAN MIND IN 1915 66 MAN’S PLACE IN NA­TURE AND NA­TURE’S PLACE IN MAN 69 COMMENTS ON AN OB­JEC­TIVE SYS­TEM OF HU­MAN PSY­CHOL­O­GY 91 SOME PRINCIPLES OF A BI­O­LOG­I­CAL PSY­CHOL­O­GY 101 THE BIOLOGY OF GRE­GAR­IOUS­NESS 112 CHARACTERS OF THE GRE­GAR­I­OUS AN­I­MAL DIS­PLAYED BY MAN 120 SOME PECULIAR­I­TIES OF THE SO­CIAL HA­BIT IN MAN 132 IMPERFECTIONS OF THE SO­CIAL HA­BIT IN MAN 139 GREGARIOUS SPE­CIES AT WAR 156 ENGLAND AGAINST GER­MANY—GER­MANY 201 ENGLAND AGAINST GER­MANY—EN­GLAND POSTSCRIPT OF 1919 214 PREJUDICE IN TIME OF WAR 224 PSYCHOLOGICAL AN­TI­CI­PA­TIONS 235 AFTER THE WAR 241 THE INSTABILITY OF CIV­I­LI­ZA­TION 251 SOME CHARACTERS OF A RA­TION­AL STATE­CRAFT 261 INDEX