The instinct of rivalry, 167. Measurement of the
stimulus from competition, 168. Means of gen-
eralizing rivalry, 169. Emulation as a source of
morale, 172. Services of economic competition,
173. Rousing effect of war, 173.
XV ANTAGONISTIC EFFORT
Conflicts of attrition, 176. The excessive cost of
conflict, 177. Eagerness for a quick decision, 178.
Competitive preparedness, 179. Means of avoid-
ing conflict, 179.
XVI PERSONAL COMPETITION
Functions of competition, 181. Intensity, 182. Re-
strictions upon its methods, 184. Competition and
morals, 188. Competition and sympathy, 188.
Limits of competition, 189.
scious organization of thought, 288. Discussion
and disputation, 289. Reading vs. listening, 294.
The planned organization of thought, 295. The
critic, 299.
XXV THE DETERIORATION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES . .
Patronage, 300. Corruption, 302. Red tape, 303.
Indifferentism, 304. Formalism, 306.. Obsoles-
cence, 309. Absolutism, 312. Perversion, 315.
Stratified society in Old Babylonia, 321. In the
later Roman Empire, 322. In eighteenth century
France, 323. In Old Japan, 324. In Tsarist Rus-
sia, 324. In Roumania, 325.
XXVII THE RISE OF GROSS INEQUALITIES.
Starting points of wealth differentiation, 326. Pri-
ority, 327. Booty, 327. Grants of land, 328. The
state as creator of inequality, 332. Laws and in-
stitutions making for inequality, 335. Static
times compared with dynamic times, 327. The
legitimation of ill-gotten fortunes, 339. Second-
ary differentiation, 341.
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Gradation according to occupation, 343. Honor-
ific employments, 344. Humilific employments,
Gradation according to riches, 348. Wealth
inherited outranks wealth acquired, 349. Deriva-
tive criteria of superiority, 350. Results of grada-
tion, 355-
XXIX SECREGATION AND SUBORDINATION
Why birth becomes everything, 358. Separation
of social classes, 359. The lower come into de-
pendence upon the higher, 361. Clientage, 363.
Peonage, 364. Subordination and fixity, 365.
Subordination and character, 366. Subordination
and charity, 367. The fate of closed classes, 368.
The common scene, 395. Community of emotional
experience, 396. The common meal, 397. Rôle of
the festival, 398. Group life, 400. Sport, 403.
Community of interests, 405. Collision of inter-
est, 407. Nationalization, 408. Disruptive ideas,
410. The expanded self, 411. Obstacles, 412.
XXXIII ESTRANGEMENT
Economic developments which rouse antagonism,
415. Genesis of discordant types, 417. Religious
schisms, 418. New ideas rend society, 419.
Means of averting estrangement and strife, 420.
Antidotes to sect-forming, 422.
XXXIV SOCIAL CONTROL
485
Two types of institutions, 485. Illustrations, 486.·
Advantages of the operative institution, 487. Its
disadvantages, 488. Institutionalism as a disease,
489. Dosing with personality is the remedy, 489.
XLI EXPANSION
The proselyting spirit, 491. Religious missions,
492. Revolutionary ideas, 493. The spirit of the
man of science, 494. Of the creative artist, 495.
Of the apostle of culture, 497. The expansive
force of nationality, 499. Imperialism, 500.
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