HUMAN NATURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER BY CHARLES HORTON COOLEY INSTRUCTOR IN SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published, September, 1902 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK CONTENTS CHAPTER I SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL PAGE Are Aspects of the Same Thing—The Fallacy of Setting Them in Opposition—Various Forms of this Fallacy 1 CHAPTER II SUGGESTION AND CHOICE The Meaning of these Terms and their Relation to Each Other—Individual and Social Aspects of Will or Choice—Suggestion and Choice in Children—The Scope of Suggestion Commonly Underestimated—Practical Limitations upon Deliberate Choice—Illustrations of the Action of the _Milieu_—The Greater or Less Activity of Choice Reflects the General State of Society—Suggestibility 14 CHAPTER III SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS The Sociability of Children—Imaginary Conversation and its Significance—The Nature of the Impulse to Communicate—There is no Separation between Real and Imaginary Persons—Nor between Thought and Intercourse—The Study and Interpretation of Expression by Children—The Symbol or Sensuous Nucleus of Personal Ideas—Personal Physiognomy in Art and Literature—In the Idea of Social Groups—Sentiment in Personal Ideas—The Personal Idea is the Immediate Social Reality—Society must be Studied in the Imagination—The Possible Reality of Incorporeal Persons—The Material Notion of Personality Contrasted with the Notion Based on a Study of Personal Ideas—Self and Other in Personal Ideas—Personal Opposition—Further Illustration and Defence of the View of Persons and of Society Here Set Forth 45 CHAPTER IV SYMPATHY OR COMMUNION AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY