ABSTRACT
There are offences that exasperate the group as well as offences that arouse the ire of the individual. In this common wrath and common vengeance lies the germ of a social control of the person. In complex cooperation even the willing need an authority over them, for success implies such a delicate poise of numerous individual performances that the Word must go forth and with power. Society, at first a direct association of men, becomes a congeries of associations, and the fellowship bond dissolves away. Private property is, in fact, a great transforming force which acts almost independently of the human will. It has an evolution of its own, and the time comes at last when it violently thrusts men apart, in spite of all their vows to draw closer together. Men and women are socialized once for all, but in time the socialized units die while new, undisciplined persons keep swarming up on to the stage of action.
