Human nature and the social orderCooley, Charles Horton
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Human nature and the social order
Cooley, Charles Horton
Individualism; Social psychology; Sociology
Perez, The First Three Years of Childhood, p. 66.
Footnote 66:
Mind, new series, vol. iv., p. 365.
Footnote 67:
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, pp. 303, 328.
Footnote 68:
See his essay on the Journal of the Brothers Goncourt.
Footnote 69:
See his Life and Letters, vol. ii., p. 192.
Footnote 70:
Compare Professor Simon N. Patten’s Theory of Social Forces, p. 135.
Footnote 71:
Thoreau, A Week, etc., p. 304.
Footnote 72:
Compare G. Stanley Hall’s study of Fear in the American Journal of
Psychology, viii., p. 147.
Footnote 73:
The terrors of our dreams are caused largely by social imaginations.
Thus Stevenson, in one of his letters, speaks of “my usual dreams of
social miseries and misunderstandings and all sorts of crucifixions of
the spirit.”—Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, i., p. 79.
Footnote 74:
Maine, Ancient Law, p. 62.
Footnote 75:
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, v., 16, Carlyle’s Translation.
Footnote 76:
In reading studies of a particular aspect of life, like M. Tarde’s
brilliant work, Les Lois de l’Imitation, it is well to remember that
there are many such aspects, any of which, if expounded at length and
in an interesting manner, might appear for the time to be of more
importance than any other. I think that other phases of social
activity, such, for instance, as communication, competition,
differentiation, adaptation, idealization, have as good claims as
imitation to be regarded as the social process, and that a book
similar in character to M. Tarde’s might, perhaps, be written upon any
one of them. The truth is that the real process is a multiform thing
of which these are glimpses. They are good so long as we recognize
that they _are_ glimpses and use them to help out our perception of
that many-sided whole which life is; but if they become _doctrines_
they are objectionable.
The Struggle for Existence is another of these glimpses of life which
just now seems to many the dominating fact of the universe, chiefly
because attention has been fixed upon it by copious and interesting
exposition. As it has had many predecessors in this place of
importance, so doubtless it will have many successors.
Footnote 77:
Decline and Fall, vol. vii., p. 82; Milman-Smith edition.
Footnote 78:
Emerson, address on New England Reformers.
Footnote 79:
Psychology, vol. ii., p. 409.
Footnote 80:
See Darwin’s Life and Letters, by his son, vol. i., p. 47.
Footnote 81:
Emerson, New England Reformers.
Footnote 82:
Psychology, vol. ii., p. 314.
Footnote 83:
In Harper’s Magazine, vol. 78, p. 870.
Footnote 84:
Reminiscences quoted by Garland in McClure’s Magazine, April, 1897.
Footnote 85:
From a letter published in the newspapers at the time of the
dedication of the Grant Monument, in April, 1897.
Footnote 86:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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