ABSTRACT
Besides sympathy, human nature exhibits certain gregarious instincts which facilitate harmony. These instincts appear as craving for the presence of one's kind, distress at being left alone, nostalgia after separation from mates, and a capacity for social pleasure indicated by mirth, laughter, and festal impulses. It is in the urban group, in fact, that social order finally parts company with the sociable impulse. For one reason why the impulse tends to harmonious conduct is that bad actions cause forfeiture of companionship, exclusion from social pleasure, ostracism. If sociability is not the basis of social order, it is still not without its services. It calls into being all manner of circles, clubs, and fraternal orders for social pleasure. It is the parent of friendships and brotherhoods. By fostering the tolerant disposition it smooths the path and lessens the friction of all forms of purposive association.
