ABSTRACT
In the children's house of a kibbutz surrounded by Israeli desert and stimulated and formed by socialist ideals, a group of boys and girls between seven and ten years of age play together. A lovers' quarrel has just ensued. The lovers are alarmed at their own capacity for hostility, and frightened at the ensuing sense of loss. Never had they realized how closely bound they were to each other than when faced with the possibility of breaking the bond. All social acts are patterned. They are as nonrandom as our physical structures. The patterns of social relationships into which they are formed can be predicted and explained. They are major regularities of the species, of any species. They can be called bonds. Human social life is not anarchic; it is not random; it is not capricious. With which woman or man or workmate or best friend we bond may be capricious, particularly for transients and dwellers in large cities.
