The word means, in general, devotion to a small part as against the whole, and is most commonly used in historical writing to describe excessive attachment to localities or factions as against nations or other larger unities. Footnote 8: American sociologists are, with a few exceptions, opponents of particularism and upholders of the organic view. Among recent writers of which this is notably true I may mention C. A. Ellwood, in his Introduction to Social Psychology and other works, E. C. Hayes, in his Introduction to the Study of Sociology and his papers on methodology, Maurice Parmelee, in his works on poverty and criminology, L. M. Bristol, in his Social Adaptation, Blackmar and Gillin, in their Outlines of Sociology, and A. J. Todd, in his Theories of Social Progress. Footnote 9: Compare the views of Professor A. G. Keller, as expressed in his Societal Evolution, 141 _ff._ Footnote 10: Other varieties of particularism are discussed in Chapters XV, XVIII, XXI and XXII. Footnote 11: In chapter V of her work. Footnote 12: Conversations with Eckermann, April 1, 1827. Footnote 13: Morley’s Burke, 8. Footnote 14: See § 138 of his Introduction to Economics. Footnote 15: If the reader cares for my view as to whether social stratification tends to increase or diminish, I beg to refer to the discussion of that subject in part IV of my Social Organization. Footnote 16: Herndon and Weik, Abraham Lincoln, vol. II, 54, 55. Footnote 17: How Germany Makes War, 111. Footnote 18: Psalm 37. Footnote 19: _Ibid._ Footnote 20: _Ibid._ Footnote 21: I Peter 3:12. Footnote 22: See his Essay, Of Glory. Footnote 23: Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 412. Footnote 24: Religio Medici, par. 18. Footnote 25: From the Advancement of Learning. Footnote 26: No. 106. Footnote 27: Emerson, Spiritual Laws. Footnote 28: Goethe. Footnote 29: Of Glory. Footnote 30: John Burroughs in his essay, Recent Phases of Literary Criticism. Footnote 31: Plato, Symposium. Footnote 32: Guizot, France, chap. V. Footnote 33: There is a fuller discussion in the chapter on The Sphere of Pecuniary Valuation. Footnote 34: James Logan in System, December, 1916. Footnote 35: Henry Ford in System, November, 1916. Footnote 36: H. G. Wells. Footnote 37: Kuno Francke in the Atlantic Monthly, November, 1914. Footnote 38: The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1911. Footnote 39: Areopagitica. Footnote 40: The Survey, vol. 29, p. 419. Footnote 41: The Chicago Commons Year-Book, 1911. Footnote 42: Any one who cares for a moving yet trustworthy account of the way city conditions affect the young may find it in Jane Addams’s books, especially The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, and A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. Footnote 43: See the Annual Report for 1909. Footnote 44: See his Folkways, sec. 115. Footnote 45: