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INDEX

Absolutism, in method, 194–202
Amusements, rivals to political interest, 139
Anarchism, 26
Aristotle, 4, 8, 138
Art, of communication, 182–84
Association, a universal fact, 22–23, 34, 151, 181;
distinctive traits of human, 24;
revolt against, 88, 98–100;
economic, 105–07;
and democracy, 143;
rigid and flexible, 148;
distinguished from community, 151–53;
domination of isolated, 194;
territorial and functional, 212–13.
See Community, Groups, Society
Attachment, a political need, 140, 214
Ayers, C. E., 59 n.
Bentham, J., 54 n.
Biological, and social, 11–12, 152, 195
Business, rival to political interest, 138;
political control by, 182.
See Economic Forces
Carlyle, T., 102, 110
Causal forces, and state, 9, 17–21, 25, 36, 37, 47, 53, 65, 66;
versus the causal order, 201–02
Child Labor Amendment, 121
Common Interest, nature of, 17, 34–35.
See Consequences, Public
Communication, a public function, 60, 208;
social necessity of, 152, 217–19;
necessary to knowledge, 176–79;
an art, 182–84.
See Symbols
Community, 38;
and society, 98, 157;
conditioning wants, 105–06;
and communication, 152–54;
importance of local, 211–19.
See Great Society
Comparative Method, 47
Conjoint Behavior, see Association
Conscience, private, origin of, 49–50
Consequences, importance of for politics, 12–13, 15, 17, 24–25, 27, 32, 39, 43, 47, 65, 126, 156, 197;
effect of expansion, 47–57;
and rules of law, 56;
effect of enduring, 57–62;
effect of irreparable, 62–64;
relation to state and government, 66–69;
to antithesis of individual and social, 193
Control, political, 12, 16;
of human nature, 197–99
Cooley, C. H., 97 n.
Corporations, illustration of relation of individual and social, 190
Democracy, political, 77;
significance of, 83;
historic genesis, 83–87;
alleged unity, 83;
pure, 94;
and “individualism”, 86–96;
inchoate, 109;
pessimism about, 110;
American, 111–15;
as a moral idea, 143–44;
machinery of
political, 143–46;
nature of ideal, 147–51;
and experts, 203–08;
and local community, 212
Descartes, R., 88
De Tocqueville, 20
Direct Action, 31
Dissemination, and social knowledge, 176–77;
physical means of, 179;
and art, 182–84.
See Communication
Dynastic States, 89
Economic Determinism, 118–89, 155–56
Economic Forces and Politics, 89–93, 98, 100, 103–07, 114, 118–20, 129–31, 141–42, 144, 155, 175, 182
Education, and social control, 197–99;
and absolutistic method, 200;
and political democracy, 206–08
Electoral College, 111
Emerson, R. W., 217
Equality, nature of, 149–50
Experimental Method, in politics, 194–202;
defined, 203
Experts, importance of, 123–25, 136–37;
and democracy, 203–04
Factions, 119
Facts, and meanings, 3;
physical and social, 6–7, 11–12;
and theories, 17
Farmers, condition of, 129–30
Gerontocracy, 78
Government, and the public, 27–28, 32, 33, 37, 65–69;
as representative, 76;
dynastic, 81–82;
fear of, 86, 90, 92;
economic control of, 107;
and opinion, 192–93
Great Society, The, 96, 98, 126, 128, 142, 147, 155, 157, 184
Groups, and the state, 4, 26, 71–73;
local, 41–42.
See Community
Habit, political effects, 61, 169;
and “individualism,” 158–61
Hayes, C., 170 n.
Hegel, G. W. F., 28, 71
History, continuity of, 161;
contemporaneous, 179
Hocking, W. E., quoted, 57
Hudson, W. H., quoted, 40–41
Hume, D., 56
Individual, antithesis to social, 13–15, 23, 63, 88, 147, 151, 186–191;
and acts, 18, 21;
and officials, 18, 75, 82;
and invention, 58;
economic, 91;
as fiction, 102, 157–58;
defined, 186–88
Individualism, origin of, 22, 87–94;
and private property, 61;
explanation of, 98–102;
influence, 116;
economic, 134;
and collectivism, 186–193;
and method, 195.
See Psychology
Instincts, and social theory, 9–12
Intelligence, necessary for social facts, 12, 24, 151–62, 188;
and democracy, 208–10;
embodied, 200–01.
See Consequences, Knowledge
Interdependence, 155
James, W., quoted, 159–60
Justice, and property, 92
Kings’s Peace, 48
Knowledge, political, 162–67;
divided, 175;
and communication, 176–79, 218–19
Labor Legislation, 62
Laissez-faire, 91, 134
Law, not command, 53–54;
nature of, 54–57;
“natural,” 90, 95, 102, 155;
social and physical, 196–97
Legal Institutions, 16, 47
Liberalism, 134
Liberty, made an end in itself, 86;
and “individualism,” 98–100, 192–94;
nature of, 150;
of thought, 168–70;
and uniformity, 215–16
Lippmann, W., 116 n, 158
Locke, J., on natural rights, 87
Macaulay, 102
Majorities and Minorities, 207–08
Materialism, 173–74
Method, problem of, 192–203
Mill, J., theory of democratic government, 93–95
Mill, J. S., 195
Mobility, social effect, 140
Nationalism, 170
News, 179–81
Officers, agents of public, 16, 17, 33, 35, 67–68, 75;
dual capacity, 77, 82;
selection of, 78–82
Opinion, 177, 179
Parties, 119–21
Paternalism, 62
Perception, see Intelligence, Consequences
Pioneer Conditions, effect on American democracy, 111
Pluralism, political, 73–74
Populus, defined, 16
Private, defined, 15.
See Public.
Prohibition, 132–33
Propaganda, 181–82
Property, and government, 91–93.
See Economic Forces.
Psychology, of habit, 61, 159–60;
of individualism, 88;
of private consciousness, 100, 158;
social effects of science of, 197–99
Public, and private, 12–17, 47–52;
and political agencies, 31, 35, 38, 67;
marks of, 39–64;
ownership, 61;
democratic, 77;
education, 112–13;
eclipse of, 115, 122, 131, 137, 185;
problem of, 125, 185, 208, 216;
complexity of, 126;
as intellectual problem, 152;
and publicity, 167–171, 219;
and opinion, 177
Railways, and government, 133–34
Reason, and the state, 20;
and law, 55–57
Religion, and social institutions, 41, 49, 169–70
Rights, natural, 87, 95, 102
Rousseau, J. J., 155
Rulers, see Officers, Government
Santayana, G., quoted, 211
Science, distinction from knowledge, 163–65, 172;
social and physical, 171, 179, 199;
and the press, 181–82;
applied, 172–76;
method, 201
Smith, Adam, 13, 89
Smith, T. V., 147 n
“Socialization,” 70
Society, human, 24–25;
and states, 26–29, 69–74, 147–49.
See Association, Community, Consequences, Great Society, Groups, Individual, Public.
Spencer, H., 63, 79
Symbols, social import of, 141–42, 152–54, 218
Tariff, 131–32
Theocracy, 41, 49, 80
Tilden, S. J., 208
Theories, political, 4, 5, 8, 85.
See Causal Forces, Economic Forces, Individualism, Mill, J., Utilitarianism
Toleration, 49–51
Tradition, revolt against, 86
Utilitarianism, 91
Wallas, G., 96
Wants, individualistic theory of, 102;
socially conditioned, 103–04
War, and selection of rulers, 79;
the World, 127–28
Whitman, Walt, 184
Will, as cause of state, 20, 38;
and the command theory of law, 53;
and government, 68;
general, 153
Wilson, Woodrow, quoted, 96–97
Workers, political neglect and emancipation, 99–100.
See Economic Forces