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PART I. THE GROUNDS OF CONTROL.

Chap, i, "The Problem;" chap, ii, "The R61e of Sympathy;" chap, iii, "The R61e of Sociability;" chap, iv, "The Role of the Sense of Jus- tice;" chap, v, "The R61e of Individual Reaction;" chap, vi, "Natural Order;" chap, vii, "The Need of Social Control ;" chap, viii, "The Direction of Social Control ; " chap, ix, " The Radiant Points of Social Control."

PART II. THE MEANS OF CONTROL.

Chap, x, "Public Opinion;" chap, xi, "Law;" chap, xii, "Belief;" chap, xiii, " Social Suggestion ; " chap, xiv, " Social Suggestion [continued'] Education;" chap, xv, "Social Suggestion [concluded] Custom;" chap, xvi, " Social Religion ;" chap, xvii, "Personal Ideals The Type;" chap, xviii, "Personal Ideals The Ideal;" chap, xix, "Ceremony;" chap, xx, "Art;" chap, xxi, "Personality;" chap, xxii, " Enlightenment ;" chap, xxiii, "Illusion;" chap, xxiv, "Social Valuations;" chap, xxv, "The Genesis of Ethical Elements Selection and Survival;" chap, xxvi, "The Genesis of Ethical Elements The Elite;" chap, xxvii, "The Maintenance of Ethical Elements."

PART III. THE SYSTEM OF CONTROL.

Chap, xxviii, "Class Control;" chap, xxix, "The Vicissitudes of Social Control;" chap, xxx, "The System of Social Control;" chap, xxxi, "The Limits of Social Control;" chap, xxxii, "The Criteria of Social Control ;" chap, xxxiii, "Conclusion."

There was something approaching a revelation in this catalogue alone. Everybody knew it, of course, very much as everybody knew Columbus's way of standing the egg on end afterwards. To the majority, however, if they should really see what it all means, the reve- lation would be as irritating as Columbus's shattering of the old cos- mology was to the traditionalists. Law, belief, art, ceremony, religion why, they are institutions. They have a monumental existence. They are like Tell's mountains that "tower and shine," and must not be criticised but worshipfully contemplated. They are whatever you will except what they are. They are more inviolable than the human body, which must not be dissected. Cold-blooded drill masters to lick egoists into social combination ? The suggestion is brutal and intolerable.

Not one-tenth of one per cent, of our American population, for instance, see farther than this into the facts that the book examines. Sad as it may be, we are so constituted, however, that we cannot get on very fast or far unless some of us get intelligent. There must be somebody to see things as they are and to steer the rest of us. This grade of insight produced the book before us, and it is only people capable of this order of insight who can use it to full advantage.