ABSTRACT
The way in which groups of human beings are led to choose certain of their number as their spokesmen and leaders is at once the most elementary and the nicest problem of social growth. History is but the record of this group leadership; and yet how infmitely changeful is its type and history! And of all types and kinds, what can be more instructive than the leadership of a group within a groutr-fuat curious double movement where real progress may be negative and actual advance be relative retrogression? All this is the social student's inspiration and despair.
