The Meaning of Sympathy as here Used—Its Relation to Thought, Sentiment, and Social Experience—The Range of Sympathy is a Measure of Personality; _e.g._, as Regards Power, Goodness or Badness, Sanity or Insanity—A Man’s Sympathies Reflect the Social Order—Specialization and Breadth—Sympathy Reflects Social Process in the Mingling of Likeness with Difference—Also in that it is a Process of Selection Guided by Feeling—The Meaning of Love in Social Discussion—Love in Relation to Self—The Study of Sympathy Reveals the Vital Unity of Human Life 102 CHAPTER V THE SOCIAL SELF—1. THE MEANING OF “I” The “Empirical Self”—“I” as a State of Feeling—Does Not Ordinarily Refer to the Body—As a Sense of Power or Causation—As a Sense of Speciality or Differentiation in a General Life—The Reflected or Looking-glass “I”—“I” is Rooted in the Past and Varies with Social Conditions—Its Relation to Habit—To Disinterested Love—How Children Learn the Meaning of “I”—The Speculative or Metaphysical “I” in Children—The Looking-glass “I” in Children—The Same in Adolescence—“I” in Relation to Sex—Simplicity and Affectation—Social Self-feeling Universal 136 CHAPTER VI THE SOCIAL SELF—2. VARIOUS PHASES OF “I” Egotism and Selfishness—The Use of “I” in Literature and Conversation—Intense Self-feeling Necessary to Productivity—Other Phases of the Social Self—Pride versus Vanity—Self-respect, Honor, Self-reverence—Humility—Maladies of the Social Self—Withdrawal—Self-transformation—Phases of the Self Caused by Incongruity between the Person and his Surroundings 179 CHAPTER VII HOSTILITY Simple or Animal Anger—Social Anger—The Function of Hostility—The Doctrine of Non-resistance—Control and Transformation of Hostility by Reason—Hostility as Pleasure or Pain—The Importance of Accepted Social Standards—Fear 232 CHAPTER VIII EMULATION Conformity—Non-conformity—The Two Viewed as Complementary Phases of Life—Rivalry—Hero-worship 262 CHAPTER IX LEADERSHIP OR PERSONAL ASCENDENCY Leadership Defines and Organizes Vague Tendency—Power as Based upon the Mental State of the Person Subject to It—The Mental Traits of a Leader: Significance and Breadth—Why the Fame and Power of a Man often Transcend his Real Character—Ascendency of Belief and Hope—Mystery—Good Faith and Imposture—Does the Leader really Lead? 283 CHAPTER X THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CONSCIENCE