ABSTRACT
Modern sociology has come to conclusions concerning the nature of man, the value of the individual and his relation to society which are in opposition to the generally accepted opinion and to the views of important philosophic thinkers who have not studied these theories. The doctrine of social gregariousness is the root of sociology and the key to the understanding of all the phenomena of civilization. The chapter describes social groups” distinguished from the “family groups.” The language of apes, who chatter unceasingly, quarrel, and play pranks on one another, is composed, according to Garner, of twenty sounds, supplemented by countless gestures and lively mimicry. The superiority of the human over the animal intellect is in great part social, not individual, and can be explained as being the accumulated result of speech. The speech-endowed man, in opposition to the speechless animal, can think, not only in memory pictures and representations, but also in these signs.
