ARTI LES. BARNES, Harry Elmer. Some Contributions of American Psy- BRANFORD, Sybella. Theology and Sociology PAGE 152, 204 ... BRANFORD, Sybella. Citizenship and the Civic Association BRANFORD, Victor. Every Man his own Sociologist... BROCK, Arthur J. Medical Theory as an expression of the Zeitgeist CITIES COMMITTEE. A New Year's Message: Earth, Hell and the CITIES COMMITTEE. Diseases of Community and their Treatment ... ... ... DOUGLAS, C. H. The Engineer in Sociology. II. The Mechanism THE Engineer in Sociology: Introduction ENOCK, C. R. The Engineer in Sociology. I. Suggestions ... POLAKOV, W. N. The Engineer in Sociology. III. The Coal Ques- ...... RAMSAY, Stanley C. Mountain, Forest and River Ross, John. Rural Finance SALEEBY, C. W. Let there be Light STOLBERG, Benjamin. The Social Evil ... SWINNY, S. H. The Sociological Schools of Comte and Leplay BRANFORD, Benchara. C. H. Douglas: Credit Power and Democracy ... BRANFORD, Victor. G. Spiller: A New System of Scientific Pro- CONWAY, F. J. A. G. Tansley. The New Psychology and its ... DICKINSON, G. Lowes. J. A. Hobson: Problems of a New World R. R. Marett: Psychology and Folklore GEDDES, Patrick. James Ritchie: Man and the Animal World ... HOLMAN, F. M. H. W. H. R. Rivers: Instinct and the Unconscious H. J. W. Hethrington: International Labour Legislation MUIRHEAD, A. J. L. T. Hobhouse: The Rational Good 248 117 257 52 SHAND, A. F. Carveth Read: The Origins of Man and of his Superstitions 181 SWINNY, S. H. J. B. Bury: The Idea of Progress 50 EALAND, C. A. (edited by). Athena a Year Book of the Learned HERBERT, Sydney. Nationality and its Problems LASKI, Harold J. Political Thought from Locke to Bentham MACIVER, R. M. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. VOL. XIII. No. I. JANUARY, 1921. A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE. EARTH, HELL AND THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE.1 I. THE DOCTRINE OF EARTH ALONE. A LEARNED historian recently invented, and with pride announced, the phrase "psychic diapason," to express the moral and mental state of a community. His boast was that he had discovered by historical research a certain unison in tone among sentiments, ideas, emotions, as these change in conformity with the whole set of modifications that make one period differ from another in the march of time. Like most learned historians he was in ignorance of the fact that long ago the founder of sociology had based this science on that very discovery, and had coined the phrase "social concensus to describe the situation. But Lamprecht's phrasing is assuredly a more vital one than Comte's; why not, therefore, adopt and introduce it? And by way of a beginning let us compare and contrast the psychic diapason of 1920 with that of 1915. Those who can throw back their mind to that "wonder year " when the nation had fairly stepped into its war stride, will recall that the whole community (with but the smallest margin of dissentients) was heartened and energised well nigh to the pitch of a regiment in action. Throughout that exalted phase (which lasted not less than a twelvemonth), the nation moved forward on a high joyous note, rich with the overtones evoked by a war that elicited the qualities of a crusade. How different the psychic diapason of 1920! That year will doubtless be remembered for its minor key shrill with the wailing strains of unfulfilled hopes and discordant with the jarring notes of loud-voiced factions. In no mood of mere optimism, still less of doctrinaire politics, but resolutely like a statesman, calmly like a philosopher, objectively like a scientist, let us raise the question whether it be possible 1. In the series of Papers for the Present, for which the Cities Committee is responsible, this is No, XIV, |