CHAPTER IV

SYMPATHY OR COMMUNION AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY

The Meaning of Sympathy as here Used—Its Relation to Thought, Sentiment, and Social Experience—The Range of Sympathy is a Measure of Personality; _e.g._, as Regards Power, Goodness or Badness, Sanity or Insanity—A Man’s Sympathies Reflect the Social Order—Specialization and Breadth—Sympathy Reflects Social Process in the Mingling of Likeness with Difference—Also in that it is a Process of Selection Guided by Feeling—The Meaning of Love in Social Discussion—Love in Relation to Self—The Study of Sympathy Reveals the Vital Unity of Human Life 102