39. If you were to judge entirely in terms of your experience as a member of this organization, what would be your judgment of the honesty and efficiency of the public service and the party machine? 40. What political prejudices or philosophies were current among various elements inside the organization? 41. Think of various members of this organization who were rather typical. How did you act toward them when you met them? What topics of conversation, of anecdote, etc., did you indulge in? What activities in common were there? 42. Did you think that you were imposed upon by any members as you look back upon it now? Did you estimate some of them too highly? Who? Why? 43. Did you underestimate some? Who? Why? 44. Were you estimated too high or too low? By whom? Why? 45. What things apart from common dishonesty would have caused you to lose standing in the organization? What opinions and activities would have compromised you? 46. Did you risk loss of standing at any time by word or deed? Were you tempted to? Why did you refrain? 47. When you tried to add others to the organization, whom did you seek? What type of people, in general, were you interested in? 48. Did the organization live up to your ideal? Why? 49. Who were the most powerful ones in the organization at different periods? What were your relations with them? What did you do consciously to win them? Success? What did you do to antagonize them? How did they take it? What, in short, was the attitude of the leaders toward you? 50. Did you ever have a sense of frustration arising from your failure to participate in discussions of policy, either because you hesitated to express yourself or because you expressed yourself badly? 51. What is your matured judgment of the utility of this organization in society? 52. How did your organization connections help or hurt you socially or any other way? 53. How did your outside connections help or hurt you in the organization? 54. What, generally speaking, were your advantages and disadvantages with reference to securing and holding a prominent position in the organization? 55. In general, what place did this organization play in your life? 56. With respect to each one of your so-called free-lance or very personal activities, answer such questions as these: How did you happen to take it up? Upon what factors would your success and failure depend? What did you do to manage the persons upon whom success or failure depended? With what result? What reaction did your experience have upon your outlook upon political life generally? INDEX Abraham, Karl, 103, 150 n. Adjustive thinking, 226 Adler, Alfred, 71 ff. Administrators: definition and histories of, 127 ff.; general theory of, 151 ff. Adolescence and politics, 187 Agitators: definition and histories of, 78 ff.; general theory of, 124 ff.