SOCIAL LIFE A MATERIALISTIC STUDY WITH AN BY CHARLES PLATT B.S., Ph.D., M.D., F.C.S., Lond. Honorary Vice-President of the National Probation Association, NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 312667 DEC 29 1926 BKD •P69 PREFACE The purpose of this book is to present some picture of society in its relations to the individual. I feel most earnestly that a diffusion of psychological knowledge is a necessary prelude to an intelligent social progress, and I believe such diffusion to be possible. Psychology is founded on common sense and has, therefore, a universal appeal; that it is useful need deter no one, for it is also entertaining—not “dry.” No one volume can more than touch upon the great mass of material which presents, but, following the excellent example of milord of Montaigne, what I can not here find room for, "the same I point at with my finger." My hope is, as in a former volume, to set thought going and thereby to arouse interest in this which has seemed to many the most important of all human studies. Hillbrook, C. P. |