ABSTRACT
Some people say that war is a product of aggression. War is a social event which favours a splitting of fantasied persons into "all good" or "all bad"; the "good" are thought of as within their own country, the enemies as all bad. The removal of tensions which lead to war is a thing which has never yet been done, but people are slow to try new means to avert it. Analogies with the body and mind of the individual are tempting but riot trustworthy. A consideration of normality is useful because it helps the reader to place quickly the notions being discussed in a frame of reference. Money-Kyrle begins by discussing what he calls "the negative characteristics of normality" which are present in abnormal people and to a small degree, if present at all, in normal ones. Money-Kyrle also considers the "positive characteristics of normality".
