CHAPTER VII. Psychological Illustration of the Idea of a

PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE IDEA OF A REAL OR GENERAL WILL 155-179

1. Object of the Chapter 155

2. Connection between social and mental groupings 156 (1) Analogy between them 156 (i) Associations of persons and of ideas 156 (ii) Organisation of social groups and of ideas 159 (2) Identity of social and mental groupings 170 (i) Social groups as an aspect of mental systems 170 (ii) Individual minds as structures of appercipient systems 173 (iii) Social whole as a system of mental systems 175