INDEX
- Adolescence, the self in, 169
- Affectation, 173 ff, 320
- Altruism, 4, 90;
- Ambition, 275 f
- Americanism, unconscious, 36
- Anger, development of, 232 ff;
- animal, 240
- Anglo-Saxons, cantankerousness of, 268;
- idealism of, 288
- Antipathy, 233 ff
- Appreciation, necessary to production, 59
- Art, creative impulse in, 57;
- Ascendency, personal, 283–325
- Asceticism, 154, 223
- Augustine, St., 218
- Aurelius, Marcus, on freedom of thought, 35;
- self-feeling of, 218
- Author, an, as leader, 303 ff
- Authority, personal, in morals, 353 ff, 384. See also Leadership
- Baldwin, Prof. J. M., 15;
- Bastien-Lepage, 355
- Belief, ascendency of, 310 f, 317 f
- Beowulf, on honor, 209 f
- Bismarck, 254;
- Blame, nature of, 289
- Blowitz, M. de, 298
- Body, relation of, to the self, 144 f, 163
- Booth, Charles, 276
- Brotherhood, extension of the sense of, 114 f
- Brown, John, 377
- Browning, 316
- Bryant, Sophie, on antipathy, 235
- Bryce, Prof. James, 38, 309
- Burke, Edmund, 202, 302 f
- Burroughs, John, on the physiognomy of works of genius, 74
- Cæsar, as a personal idea, 99
- Cant, 320
- Casaubon, Mr., 224 f
- Chagrin, 241
- Charity, 238, 336. See also Altruism, Right
- Chicago, aspect of the crowd in, 37
- Child, Theodore, 355
- Child, a, unlovable at birth, 45
- Children, imitation in, 19 ff;
- sociability of, 45 ff;
- imaginary conversation of, 52 ff;
- study of expression by, 62 ff;
- growth of sentiment in, 79 ff;
- development of self in, 142, 146;
- use of “I” by, 157 ff;
- reflected self in, 164 ff;
- anger of, 232 f;
- hero-worship of, 279;
- ascendency over, 289 f;
- habitual morality in, 340 f;
- moral growth of, 349 ff;
- causes of degeneracy in, 378 ff;
- what constitutes freedom for, 393 f, 398, 401;
- spoiled, 403
- China, organization of, 399
- Chinese, European lack of moral sense regarding, 362
- Choice, in relation to suggestion, 14–44;
- Christ, self-feeling of, 142;
- “Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life,” 34
- Church, inculcation of personal authority in the, 353;
- City life, effect upon sympathy, 112 f
- Classification of minds as stable or unstable, 186 f, 200 ff, 382 f
- Collectivism, 4
- Columbus, 269, 306
- Communicate, the impulse to, 56 ff
- Communication, of sentiment, 104 f;
- Communion, as an aspect of society, 102–135
- Competition, 252, 256 f
- Confession, 54, 356 f
- Conformity, 262 ff
- Conscience, 12, 180, 202, 239, 249, 258;
- Conservatism, 273
- “Continued Stories,” 366 f
- Controversy, 243
- Conversation, imaginary, 52 ff, 359, 361
- Country life, effect upon sympathy; 112
- Creeds, the nature and use of, 370
- Crime, 252;
- Criminal impulses, nature of, 380 f
- Cromwell, 302
- Crowds, suggestibility of, 40
- Crowd-feeling, 291 f
- Culture, relation of, to social organization, 117 f
- Dagnan, 355
- Dante, 31 f, 188
- Darwin, Charles, 66, 68, 165, 177, 190, 243, 279;
- “Das ewig Weibliche,” 171, 312
- Degeneracy, from too much choice, 39, 125;
- Delusions of greatness and of persecution, 229 f
- Democracy of sentiment, 114
- Descartes, seclusion of, 197
- Determinism, 4
- Dialogue, composing in, 55 f
- Diaries, as intercourse, 57;
- moral effect of, 356 f
- Dill’s “Roman Society,” 312
- Discipline, in relation to freedom, 396 f
- Disraeli, B., 219, 315
- Divorce, increase of, incidental to freedom, 403
- Double causation theory of society, 9 f
- Dreams, as imaginary conversation, 54
- Duplicity, 234
- Duty, sense of, 338 f, 343, 360
- Education, culture in, 117 f;
- Ego, the empirical, 136;
- Egoism, 4;
- Egotism, 92, 179 ff;
- Element of society, 134
- Eliot, George, 178, 224, 263, 314, 354
- Eloquence, 301 ff
- Emerson, E. W., 367
- Emerson, R. W., 6, 57, 120, 128, 174, 211, 243, 266, 269, 287, 294, 295, 335, 365, 367
- Emulation, 262–282
- Endogenous minds, 200 f, 383
- Environment, 271;
- and heredity, 378 f.
- See also Suggestion
- Equilibrium mobile of conscience, 335
- Ethics, physiological theories of, 208 f. See also Conscience, Right
- Evolution, 9, 13, 18, 145;
- Exhaustion, causes suggestibility, 41
- Exogenous minds, 200 f, 382
- Experience, social, is imaginative, 105 f
- Expression, facial, 62 ff;
- Eye, expressiveness of, 62 f;
- in literature, 73
- Face. See Expression
- Fame, often transcends the man, 307 f
- Family, freedom in the, 403
- Fear, of animals, 66;
- social, 258 ff
- Feeling. See Sentiment
- Fitzgerald, Edward, seclusiveness of, 400
- Forms, used to maintain ascendency, 319
- Fox, Charles, 302 f
- Fra Angelico, 248, 353
- Francis, St., 47
- Free will, 4, 18 ff, 32
- Freedom, 392–404;
- Friendship, 120 f
- Frith’s “Autobiography,” 76
- Games, athletic, 256
- Genius, 11, 106, 169, 188;
- Gibbon, Edward, 273
- Gibson, W. H., 306
- Giddings, Prof. F. H., on imitation, 27
- Gloating, 143
- God, as love, 126 f;
- Gods, famous persons partake of the nature of, 308
- Goethe, on individuality in art, 33;
- Gothic architecture, rise of, 37
- Grant, General, 41, 76;
- Gummere, F. B., 210
- Guyau, on the onward self, 335 f
- Habit, limits suggestibility, 42;
- Hall, President G. Stanley, 73;
- on the self, 163; 259
- Hamerton, P. G., 196, 317
- Hamlet, use of “I” in, 145
- Hatred, 253
- Hazlitt, W., 253
- Hedonizing, instinctive, 61
- Herbert, George, 155
- Hereditary element in sociability, 50
- Hereditary tendency, 284 ff
- Heredity, as a cause of degeneracy, 375, 378 ff
- Hero-worship, 213, 278 ff, 286 f
- Heroism, 339
- Honor, 207 ff
- Hope, ascendency of, 310 f
- Hostility, 232–261
- Howells, W. D., 301
- Hugo, Victor, 229
- Humility, 212 ff
- Huxley, Thomas, 242 f, 305
- Hysterical temperament, 344, 382 f
- “I,” in relation to love, 129 ff;
- the reflected or looking-glass, 152 f, 164 ff, 175, 178, 211, 216 f, 349 ff;
- meaning of, 136–178;
- exists within the general life, 147 ff;
- as related to the rest of thought, 150 f, 156;
- is rooted in the social order, 153 ff;
- how children learn the meaning of, 157 ff;
- various phases of, 179–231;
- use of in literature and conversation, 190 ff;
- in self-reverence, 211;
- in leadership, 294
- Ideal persons, as factors in conscience, 362 ff;
- Idealism, ascendency of, 310
- Idealization, 272, 362 ff
- Ideas, personal. See Personal ideas
- Idiocy, congenital, 379;
- as mental degeneracy, 381 f
- Idiots, kindliness of, 51 f, 125
- Imaginary conversation, of children, 52 f;
- all thought is, 53 ff
- Imaginary playmate, 52 f
- Imagination, in relation to personal ideas, 81 ff, 98 ff;
- Imitation, 14 ff;
- Imitative instinct, the supposed, 25 ff
- Immortality, self-feeling in the idea of, 155
- Imposture, 318 ff
- Indifferentism, 389
- Indignation, 239, 249 ff
- Individual, the, in relation to society, 1–13, 324 f, 393;
- Individualism, 4 ff, 8, 10
- Individuality, Goethe’s view of, in art, 33
- Industrial system, effect of upon the individual, 118 f
- Insane, reverence for the, 314
- Insanity, in relation to sympathy, 110;
- Instincts, whether divisible into social and unsocial, 12 f
- Institution, ideal persons may become an, 369
- Institutions, in relation to sympathy, 133
- Intercourse, relation to thought, 61
- Interlocutor, imaginary, drawn from the environment, 59 f
- Invention, 271 f, 337. See also Imitation
- Involuntary, the, why ignored, 30 f. See also Will
- Isolation of degenerates, 391
- James, Henry, 183, 236, 314
- James, Prof. William, on social persons, 90;
- Jerome, St., 154
- Jowett, Prof., 279
- Justice, the sentiment of, 91;
- Kempis, Thomas à, 34, 128, 155, 214, 218, 220, 226
- Lamb, Charles, 76, 192;
- literary power of, 306
- Language involves an interlocutor, 56.
- See also Expression
- Leader, mental traits of a, 293 ff;
- does he really lead? 321
- Leadership, 108, 175, 283–325
- Learoyd, Mabel W., 366
- Lecky, W. H., 223
- Leonardo, mystery of, 316
- Likeness and difference in sympathy, 120 f
- Lincoln, 83
- Literature, creative impulse in, 57;
- Lombroso, Prof. Cesare, 229
- Love, of the sexes, 121 f;
- Lowell, J. R., 141 f, 265, 269, 402
- Luther, Martin, 180 f, 318
- Lying, in relation to sympathy, 110, 358 f
- M., a child of the author, 24, 27, 49, 62 ff, 157 ff, 166 f, 349 ff
- Macaulay, physiognomy in his style, 77
- Machinery, effect of, upon the workman, 118 f
- Maine, Sir Henry, 264
- Man of the world, traits of the contemporary, 255
- Manners, conformity in, 263;
- as an aid to ascendency, 319
- Marshall, H. R., 331
- Material bent of our civilization, 37, 402
- Maudsley, Dr., on degeneracy, 381
- Meredith, George, 182
- Michelangelo, 76, 310, 353
- Middle Ages, suggestibility in the, 36
- Milieu, power of the, 34 ff
- Milton, 73
- Moltke, silence of, 315
- Monasticism, in relation to the self, 222 f, 227 f
- Montaigne, on the need to communicate, 56; 76, 191, 192
- Moore, K. C., on the smiling of infants, 46
- Morality, traditionary, 338 ff.
- See also Conscience, Right
- Motley, J. L., 73 f
- Murder, 386
- Music, sensuous mystery of, 317
- Mystery, a factor in ascendency, 312 ff
- Nansen, 269
- Napoleon, how we know him, 86;
- New Testament, 142, 215, 245
- Nirvana, the ideal of disinterested love, 130
- Non-conformity, 262 ff
- Non-resistance, doctrine of, 245 ff
- Norsemen, motive of, 273
- Norton, Prof. C. E., 37
- “One,” use of, compared with “I,” 192 f
- Onward, right as the, 334 ff
- Opposition, personal, its nature, 95 f;
- spirit of, 267 ff
- Oratory, ascendency in, 301 ff
- Organization, of personal thought, 51;
- Originality, 322 ff.
- See also Genius, Leadership, Invention
- Other-worldism, 222
- Painting, personal symbols in, 72.
- See also Art, Expression
- Papacy, symbolic character of, 308 f
- Particularism, 4
- Pascal, 218, 222
- Passion, why a cause of pain, 253 f;
- influence upon idea of right, 330 f
- Pater, Walter, 304
- Patten, Prof Simon N., 244
- Paul, St., 218
- Perez, Dr. B., 46;
- Personal authority, influence upon sense of right, 353 ff
- Personal character, interpretation of, 67, 70
- Personal ideas, 62 ff;
- Personal symbols in art and literature, 71 ff
- Persona, real and imaginary, inseparable, 60 f;
- Philanthropy, motive of, 269 f
- Pioneer, self-feeling of the, 268
- Pity, is it altruism? 94 f;
- relation to sympathy, 102 f; 238
- Power, based on sympathy, 107 f;
- Prayer, as personal intercourse, 357
- Pretence, contempt of, in America, 300
- Prevention of degeneracy, 390 f
- Preyer, W., 27, 46
- Pride, 199 ff
- Primitive individualism, 10
- Principle, moral, 338 f
- Process, social, imitation, etc., as, 272;
- vital, problem of, 333
- Processes, social, reflected in sympathy, 119 ff
- Progress, relation of, to freedom, 396
- Publicity, moral effect of, 356 ff
- Punishment, 252, 384, 390
- R., a child of the author, 21 ff, 28, 49 f, 51, 53, 158 ff, 341, 351
- Rational, right as the, 326 ff
- Recapitulation theory of mental development, 21
- Refinement, as affecting hostility, 237
- Religion, suggestibility in, 42, 43;
- Remorse, 253, 329, 368, 385 f
- Repentance, 368
- Resentment, 199, 212, 237 ff
- Resistance, imaginative, 245 ff
- Responsibility, in crime, etc., 388 f
- Right, based on sympathy, 108 ff;
- relation to egotism, 184;
- to the
- self in general, 189;
- social standards of, as affecting hostility, 256 ff;
- as the rational, 326 ff;
- conscience the final test of, 333 f;
- as the onward, 334 ff;
- as habit, 337 ff, 348;
- as a phase of the self, 342 f;
- the social as opposed to the sensual, 347 f;
- action of personal ideas in forming the sense of, 348 ff;
- as a microcosm of character, 353;
- reflects a social group, 360 ff;
- and wrong, 372 ff;
- idea of, 377;
- freedom as, 393 ff
- Riis, Jacob A., 361
- Rivalry, 274 ff
- Roget’s “Thesaurus,” 198
- Roman Empire, 312, 399
- Rousseau, 237, 260
- Rule of conduct, Marshall’s, 331
- Ruskin, 317
- Russia, 399
- Sanity, based on sympathy, 110
- Savonarola, physiognomy of, 314
- Schiller, 113, 121
- Science, and faith, 308;
- Sculpture, personal symbols in, 72 f
- Seclusion, moral effect of, 358
- Secretiveness, 59, 196
- “Seeing yourself,” 367 f
- Selection, in sympathy, 122 ff
- Selective method of nature, 373 f
- Self, in relation to other personal ideas, 91 ff, 98;
- antithesis with “other,” 115, 188 ff;
- in morals, 365 f;
- in relation to love, 129 ff, 155 ff, 195;
- social, 136–231;
- observation of in children, 157 ff;
- the narrow or egotistical, 185;
- every cherished idea is a, 185;
- reflected or looking-glass, 152 f, 164 ff, 175, 178, 211, 216 f;
- influence of upon conscience, 349 ff;
- maladies of the social, 215 ff;
- transformation of, 224 ff;
- effect of uncongenial environment upon, 227 ff, 245, 320;
- crescive, 335;
- ethical, 342 f;
- ideal social, 359, 366 ff
- Self-control, 254
- Self-feeling, 137 ff;
- Self-image as a work of art, 207
- Self-neglecting, 195
- Self-reliance, 294 ff
- Self-respect, 205 ff, 238
- Self-reverence, 211 ff
- Self-sacrifice, 190, 336.
- See also Humility, Altruism
- Selfishness, nature of, 179 ff;
- as a mental trait, 186 ff
- “Sense of other persons,” 176
- Sensual, as opposed to the social, 347 f
- Sensuality, 182
- Sentiment, personal, genesis of, 79 ff;
- Sentiments, as related to selfishness, 182;
- literary, 361
- Seven deadly sins, 381
- Sex, in sympathy, 121 f;
- in the self, 171 ff
- Shakespeare, 11, 73, 76;
- Shame, fear of, 260 f;
- sense of, 350
- “Sheridan’s Ride,” 292
- Sherman, General, 299
- Shinn, Miss, 167
- Sidis, Dr. B., 36
- Sidney, Sir Philip, 83
- Silence, fascination of, 314 f
- Simplicity, 174
- Sin, 376, 381
- Sincerity in leadership, 317 ff
- Slums, 379
- Smiles, earliest, 45 ff;
- interpretation of, 64 f
- Sociability and personal ideas, 45–101
- “Social,” meanings of the word, 3 f
- Social faculty view, 11 f
- Social groups, sensible basis of the idea of, 77;
- relation of to the individual, 114
- Social order, reflected in sympathy, 111 ff;
- freedom in relation to, 397 ff
- Social reality, the immediate is the personal idea, 84
- Socialism, 4 ff, 90
- Society, and the individual, 1–13, 134 f, 324 f;
- Sociology, too much based on material notions, 85, 89 f, 98 ff;
- Solitude, apparent, 57 f
- Sophocles, 142
- Spanish-American war, consolidating effect of, 293
- Specialization, effect of, 115 ff
- Spencer, Herbert, on egoism and altruism, 92;
- Spencerism, 306
- Stability and instability in the self, 200 ff
- Stable and unstable types of mind, 186 ff, 200 ff, 382 f
- Stanley, Prof. H. M., 27, 138, 201, 214
- Sterne, L., 194
- Stevenson, R. L., physiognomy in his style, 77, 88, 95, 192, 195, 260, 320, 355
- Strain of the present age, 112
- Struggle for existence, as a view of life, 272
- Style, the personal idea in, 73 ff;
- Suger, the Abbot, 37
- Suggestibility, 39 ff
- Suggestion, and choice, 14–44;
- Superficiality of the time, 112, 198
- Symbols, personal, 69 ff;
- in art and literature, 71 ff
- Symonds, J. A., 155, 169 f, 279, 317
- Sympathy, or communion as an aspect of society, 102–135;
- meaning of, 102 ff;
- as compassion, 103;
- a measure of personality, 106 ff;
- universal, 113 f;
- reflects social processes, 119 ff;
- selective, 122 ff;
- and love, 124 ff;
- a particular expression of society, 133 ff;
- hostile, 160, 234 ff;
- in leadership, 294 ff;
- lack of, in degeneracy, 382;
- with criminal acts a test of responsibility, 387 ff
- Sympathies, reflect the social order, 111 ff
- Tact, 183 f;
- in ascendency, 297 f
- Tarde, G., 15, 272
- “Tasso,” quoted, 122, 150
- Tennyson, 129, 210, 287, 318
- Thackeray, 76, 192
- Thoreau, H. D., his relation to society, 57 f, 399 f; 157, 192, 195, 197, 235, 244, 270
- Toleration, 264
- Truth, motive for telling, 358 f
- Tylor, E. B., 42, 314
- Vanity, 199, 203 ff
- Variation, degeneracy as, 374 f
- Wagner, Richard, 76
- War, hostile feeling in, 257;
- dramatic power of leadership in, 291 f
- Washington, 83
- Whitman, Walt, 192
- Will, free, 4;
- William the Silent, 314
- Withdrawal, physical, 219;
- imaginative, 220 ff
- Wrong, as the irrational, 329;
- Wundt, on “Ich,” 138
- Youth, sense of, 128, 280