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