THE INADEQUACY OF THE ANALOGY OF THE ORGANISM AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 23 I. The Value of the Analogy 23 II. The Inevitable Inadequacy of the Analogy 24 1. It Comes from the Sub-personal World 24 2. Access to Reality, Only Through Ourselves 24 3. Mistaken Passion for Construing Everything 25 III. The Analogy Tested by the Definition of the Social Consciousness 27 CHAPTER III THE NECESSITY OF THE FACTS OF WHICH THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE REFLECTION, IF IDEAL INTERESTS ARE TO BE SUPREME 29 I. The Question 29 II. Otherwise, No Moral World at all 30 1. The Prerequisites of a Moral World 30 (1) A Sphere of Law 30 (2) Ethical Freedom 30 (3) Some Power of Accomplishment 31 (4) Members One of Another 32 2. The Ideal World Requires, thus, the Facts of the Social Consciousness 32 CHAPTER IV THE ULTIMATE EXPLANATION AND GROUND OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 35 I. How can it be, Metaphysically, that we do Influence One Another? 35 1. Not Due to the Physical Fact of Race-Connection 36 2. We are not to Over-Emphasize the Principle of Heredity 37 3. Not Due to a Mystical Solidarity 39 4. Grounded in the Immanence of God 40 II. What is Required for the Final Positive Justification of the Social Consciousness, as Ethical? 44 1. Must be Grounded in the Supporting Will of God 44 2. God's Sharing in our Life 48 3. The Consequent Transfiguration of the Social Consciousness 49 THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON THE CONCEPTION OF RELIGION INTRODUCTION 53 CHAPTER V