Classification of minds as stable or unstable, 186 f, 200 ff, 382 f Collectivism, 4 Columbus, 269, 306 Communicate, the impulse to, 56 ff Communication, of sentiment, 104 f; effect of modern, 114; influence of means of, 361, 365, 399 Communion, as an aspect of society, 102–135 Competition, 252, 256 f Confession, 54, 356 f Conformity, 262 ff Conscience, 12, 180, 202, 239, 249, 258; social aspect of, 326–371; voice of, 328; individual and social aspects of, 346 f; in degeneracy, 383 ff; is the test of freedom, etc., 396. See also Right Conservatism, 273 “Continued Stories,” 366 f Controversy, 243 Conversation, imaginary, 52 ff, 359, 361 Country life, effect upon sympathy; 112 Creeds, the nature and use of, 370 Crime, 252; as degeneracy, 379, 385 ff; and insanity, 387 ff Criminal impulses, nature of, 380 f Cromwell, 302 Crowds, suggestibility of, 40 Crowd-feeling, 291 f Culture, relation of, to social organization, 117 f Dagnan, 355 Dante, 31 f, 188 Darwin, Charles, 66, 68, 165, 177, 190, 243, 279; power as a writer, 304; 323, 374 “_Das ewig Weibliche_,” 171, 312 Degeneracy, from too much choice, 39, 125; self-feeling in, 229 ff; personal, 372–391; incidental to freedom, 403 f Delusions of greatness and of persecution, 229 f Democracy of sentiment, 114 Descartes, seclusion of, 197 Determinism, 4 Dialogue, composing in, 55 f Diaries, as intercourse, 57; moral effect of, 356 f Dill’s “Roman Society,” 312 Discipline, in relation to freedom, 396 f Disraeli, B., 219, 315 Divorce, increase of, incidental to freedom, 403 Double causation theory of society, 9 f Dreams, as imaginary conversation, 54 Duplicity, 234 Duty, sense of, 338 f, 343, 360 Education, culture in, 117 f; as freedom, 398, 401. See also Children Ego, the empirical, 136; the metaphysical, 136, 163; and alter in morals, 343 ff Egoism, 4; and altruism, 92 ff, 188 ff, 344 ff Egotism, 92, 179 ff; as a mental trait, 186 ff; varieties of, 186 ff; as degeneracy, 382 f Element of society, 134 Eliot, George, 178, 224, 263, 314, 354 Eloquence, 301 ff Emerson, E. W., 367 Emerson, R. W., 6, 57, 120, 128, 174, 211, 243, 266, 269, 287, 294, 295, 335, 365, 367 Emulation, 262–282 Endogenous minds, 200 f, 383 Environment, 271; and heredity, 378 f. See also Suggestion _Equilibrium mobile_ of conscience, 335 Ethics, physiological theories of, 208 f. See also Conscience, Right Evolution, 9, 13, 18, 145; in relation to leadership, 322; to degeneracy, 373 ff Exhaustion, causes suggestibility, 41 Exogenous minds, 200 f, 382 Experience, social, is imaginative, 105 f Expression, facial, 62 ff; vocal, 66 f; interpretation of, 68 f; suggestion of, in literature and art, 71 ff Eye, expressiveness of, 62 f; in literature, 73 Face. See Expression Fame, often transcends the man, 307 f