ABSTRACT

The reciprocal interest among the members of a species which leads to the behavior of social groups is, in its primitive state, quite the opposite of an individual response to an objective, and need have none of the features of sexual attraction or parental solicitude. Instead, the individual is submerged in the undifferentiated setting of group-behavior, the influence of one member upon another being altogether too immediate for any reflection or for the independence of an individual agency.