ABSTRACT
An examination of the means of modifying conduct through the judgment calls for the consideration of Enlightenment, Illusion, and Social Valuation as instruments of social control. In the controlling of groups, classes, or parties the method of enlightenment is more effective than in modifying the conduct of individuals. The method of enlightenment has distinct correlations. An age that deems man, at bottom, a reasonable creature, thinks much of education as a cure for human depravity. The attempt to manage men by enlightenment hurries society toward consciousness of itself. For with the endeavor to awaken a sense of responsibility by dwelling on the social consequences of conduct, there grows up a rational theory of social relations which every "good citizen" is expected to believe in. Enlightenment would be of no effect. It grows apace in democratic times.
