4. Isolation, Segregation, and the Physically Defective: as the Blind, the Deaf-Mute, the Physically Handicapped. 5. Isolated Areas and Cultural Retardation: the Southern Mountaineer, Pitcairn Islanders, the Australian Aborigines. 6. "Moral" Areas, Isolation, and Segregation: City Slums, Vice Districts, "Breeding-places of Crime." 7. The Controlled versus the Natural process of Segregation of the Feeble-minded. 8. Isolation and Insanity. 9. Privacy in the Home. 10. Isolation and Prestige. 11. Isolation as a Defence against the Invasion of Personality. 12. Nationalism as a Form of Isolation. 13. Biological and Social Immunity: or Biological Immunity from Infection, Personal or Group Immunity against Social Contagion. 14. The Only Child. 15. The Pathological Liar Considered from the Point of View of Isolation. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Is the distinction between isolation and social contact relative or absolute? 2. What illustrations of the various forms of isolation, spatial, structural, habitudinal, and psychical, occur to you? 3. By what process does isolation cause racial differentiation? 4. What is the relation of endogamy and exogamy (a) to isolation, and (b) to the establishment of a successful stock or race? 5. In what ways do the Jews and the Americans as racial types illustrate the effects of isolation and of contact? 6. What do you understand to be Bacon's definition of solitude? 7. What is the point in the saying "A great town is a great solitude"? 8. What is the sociology of the creation by a solitary person of imaginary companions? 9. Under what conditions does an individual prefer solitude to society? Give illustrations. 10. What are the devices used in prayer to secure isolation? 11. "Prayer has value in that it develops the essentially social form of personal self-realization." Explain. 12. What are the interrelations of social contact and of privacy in the development of the ideal self? 13. What do you understand by the relation of erudition to originality? 14. In what ways does isolation (a) promote, (b) impede, originality? What other factors beside isolation are involved in originality? 15. What is the value of privacy? 16. What was the value of the monasteries? 17. What conclusions do you derive from the study of the cases of feral men? Do these cases bear out the theory of Aristotle in regard to the effect of isolation upon the individual? 18. What is the significance of Helen Keller's account of how she broke through the barriers of isolation? 19. What were the mental effects of solitude described by Hudson? How do you explain the difference between the descriptions of the effect of solitude in the accounts given by Rousseau and by Hudson? 20. How does Galpin explain the relation of isolation to the development of the "rural mind"? 21. What are the effects of isolation upon the young man or young woman reared in the country?