ABSTRACT
The control exercised by society over its members has two forms: one, the control exercised by government, with explicit laws sanctioned by military force; the other, the social control by natural contagion, cooperation, or suasion. In civilised countries non-official societies are not allowed to use force in dominating either their own members or outsiders whom they may wish to annex or to 432destroy; but originally parental and tribal authority extended over everything equally, and punished cruelly any contradiction of its traditional, vague, but ferocious principles.
