FORMALISM AND DISORGANIZATION The Nature of Formalism—Its Effect upon Personality—Formalism in Modern Life—Disorganization, “Individualism”—How it Affects the Individual—Relation to Formalism—“Individualism” Implies Defective Sympathy—Contemporary “Individualism”—Restlessness under Discomfort—The Better Aspect of Disorganization 342 CHAPTER XXXI DISORGANIZATION: THE FAMILY Old and New Régimes in the Family—The Declining Birth-Rate—“Spoiled” Children—The Opening of New Careers to Women—European and American Points of View—Personal Factors in Divorce—Institutional Factors—Conclusion 356 CHAPTER XXXII DISORGANIZATION: THE CHURCH The Psychological View of Religion—The Need of Social Structure—Creeds—Why Symbols Tend to Become Formal—Traits of a Good System of Symbols—Contemporary Need of Religion—Newer Tendencies in the Church 372 CHAPTER XXXIII DISORGANIZATION: OTHER TRADITIONS Disorder in the Economic System—In Education—In Higher Culture—In the Fine Arts 383 PART VI—PUBLIC WILL CHAPTER XXXIV THE FUNCTION OF PUBLIC WILL Public and Private Will—The Lack of Public Will—Social Wrongs Commonly Not Willed at All 395 CHAPTER XXXV GOVERNMENT AS PUBLIC WILL Government Not the Only Agent of Public Will—The Relative Point of View; Advantages of Government as an Agent—Mechanical Tendency of Government—Characteristics Favorable to Government Activity—Municipal Socialism—Self-Expression the Fundamental Demand of the People—Actual Extension of State Functions 402 CHAPTER XXXVI SOME PHASES OF THE LARGER WILL Growing Efficiency of the Intellectual Processes—Organic Idealism—The Larger Morality—Indirect Service—Increasing Simplicity and Flexibility in Social Structure—Public Will Saves Part of the Cost of Change—Human Nature the Guiding Force behind Public Will 411 Index 421 _PART I_ PRIMARY ASPECTS OF ORGANIZATION SOCIAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER I SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF MIND MIND AN ORGANIC WHOLE—CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS RELATIONS—DOES SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS COME FIRST? COGITO, ERGO SUM—THE LARGER INTROSPECTION—SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN CHILDREN—PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS.