ABSTRACT
We said, in Chapter I, that what we call a human society is a number of individuals bound together by a normative order, or body of rules. This account must now be amplified. In succeeding chapters we shall be concerned particularly with states, with their relations with associations of other sorts and with one another, and with the rights and duties we attribute to them as 'social wholes'. As a preliminary, we devote this chapter to a study of some of the puzzling features of the idea of a social whole.
