Social Organization; a Study of the Larger MindC. Scribner's sons, 1909 - 436 Seiten |
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achievement American Atlantic Monthly become better biological type caste chap character CHARLES HORTON COOLEY chiefly civilization communication consciousness coöperation culture definite democracy Democracy in America democratic difference discipline discussion distinct ditions doubt economic effect eral exist express fact favorable feeling freedom function growth hereditary higher human nature ideal ideas impulses individual industry inheritance institutions intercourse Jane Addams kind labor labor unions lack larger less live marriage matter means mechanical ment mind modern moral unity ness never organization Paul Bourget perhaps phases political popular portunities poverty primary groups PRIMARY IDEALS principle public opinion question race rational reason regard relation religion rich rule self-assertion sense sentiment social society sort spirit symbols sympathy tendency tends things Thomas à Kempis thought tion tradition truth vidual vital wealth whole
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Seite 253 - I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Seite 165 - People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
Seite 154 - If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than hydra...
Seite 144 - It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy.
Seite 252 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey; neither two coats, neither shoes, nor y«t staves : for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Seite 23 - It is not to be supposed that the unity of the primary group is one of mere harmony and love. It is always a differentiated and usually a competitive unity, admitting of self-assertion and various appropriative passions; but these passions are socialized by sympathy, and come, or tend to come, under the discipline of a common spirit. The individual will be ambitious...
Seite 196 - I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
Seite 27 - ... social unity, and also in the sense that they do not change in the same degree as more elaborate relations, but form a comparatively permanent source out of which the latter are ever springing. Of course they are not independent of the larger society, but to some extent reflect its spirit; as the German family and the German school bear somewhat distinctly the print of German militarism. But this, after all, is like the tide setting back into creeks, and does not commonly go very far.
Seite 30 - ... alike in all societies; groups of the family, the playground, and the neighborhood. In the essential similarity of these is to be found the basis, in experience, for similar ideas and sentiments in the human mind. In these, everywhere, human nature comes into existence. Man does not have it at birth; he cannot acquire it except through fellowship, and it decays in isolation.
Seite 86 - That any system could have held even the original thirteen states in firm union without the advent of modern communication is very doubtful. Political philosophy, from Plato to Montesquieu, had taught that free states must be small, and Frederick the Great is said to have ridiculed the idea of one extending from Maine to Georgia. "A large empire," says Montesquieu, "supposes a despotic authority in the person who governs.