One essential and often useful symbol to show what a man makes of himself, what he counts himself for, is his use of the word _we_. Hartenstein[85] has already called attention to the importance of this circumstance, and Volkmar says: “The _we_ has a very various scope, from the point of an accidental simultaneity of images in the same sensation, representation or thought, to the almost complete circle of the family _we_ which breaks through the _I_ and even does not exclude the most powerful antagonisms; hatred, just like love, asserts its _we_.” What is characteristic in the word _we_ is the opposition of a larger or smaller group of which the _I_ is a member, to the rest of the universe. I say _we_ when I mean merely my wife and myself, the inhabitants of my house, my family, those who live in my street, in my ward, or in my city; I say _we_ assessors, we central-Austrians, we Austrians, we Germans, we Europeans, we inhabitants of the earth. I say we lawyers, we blonds, we Christians, we mammals, we collaborators on a monthly, we old students’ society, we married men, we opponents of jury trial. But I also say _we_ when speaking of accidental relations, such as being on the same train, meeting on the same mountain peak, in the same hotel, at the same concert, etc. In a word _we_ defines all relationships from the narrowest and most important, most essential, to the most individual and accidental. Conceivably the we unites also people who have something evil in common, who use it a great deal among themselves, and because of habit, in places where they would rather not have done so. Therefore, if you pay attention you may hear some suspect who denies his guilt, come out with a we which confesses his alliance with people who do the things he claims not to: _we_ pickpockets, _we_ house-breakers, _we_ gamblers, inverts, etc. It is so conceivable that man as a social animal seeks companionship in so many directions that he feels better protected when he has a comrade, when he can present in the place of his weak and unprotected _I_ the stronger and bolder _we_; and hence the considerable and varied use of the word. No one means that people are to be caught with the word; it is merely to be used to bring clearness into our work. Like every other honest instrument, it is an index to the place of the man before us. Section 13. (c) Particular Character-signs.