ABSTRACT
Our natural man, desiring the remote food, yet kept within the shelter of his cave by the fear of a remote object, would continue to think about the food and about the dangerous object; he would imagine himself approaching the food cautiously in various ways. The life of social man is sustained by impulses and desires springing from the same instincts. It differs from that of the natural man in two ways: In that he learns to make use of a vast store of traditional knowledge; and in that, under the influence of example and precept, he builds up many sentiments which are traditional in his society, enduring attitudes toward a multitude of objects, both the concrete objects which the natural man knows, and the abstract objects which only the use of language enables the social man to think of or conceive. There is a great theory of human action beloved of some moralists.
