ABSTRACT

Yet even after discarding the view of society as an organism, it is not as simple as it initially appears to be to define what a society is a composite personality. The collective as a composite organism exists and functions at the expense of the individual organism, since the personality is always, to a greater or lesser degree, suppressed by a crowd, an assembly, a corporation and by any public or state organization. One may undoubtedly ask the question whether such large groups as populations of countries or states, or even the whole of civilized mankind, can be the subject matter of collective reflexology. The gatherings that make certain decisions based on what has been read and discussed manifest not only collective concentration and collective mood but also collective intellect in the form of collective resolutions. The more cohesive and homogeneous a collective is, the greater its moral power and its activity are, and vice versa.