organized societies or social communities, and which constitute the ultimate basis of those societies
or social communities, fall, from the social point of 'View, into two main classes: those which lead to
social cooperation, and those which lead to social antagonism among individuals; those which give
rise to friendly attitudes and relations, and those which give rise to hostile attitudes and relations,
among the human individuals implicated in the social situations. We have used the term "social" in
its broadest and strictest sense; but in that quite common narrower sense, in which it bears an
ethical connotation, only the fundamental physiological human impulses or behavior tendencies 'of
the former class (those which are friendly, or which make for friendliness and cooperation among
the individuals motivated by them) are "social" or lead to "social" conduct; whereas those impulses
or behavior tendencies of the latter class (those which are hostile, or which make for hostility and
antagonism among the individuals motivated by them) are "antisocial" or lead to "anti-social"
conduct. Now it is true that the latter class of fundamental impulses or behavior tendencies in
human beings are "anti-social" in so far as they would, by themselves, be destructive of all human
social organization, or could not, alone, constitute the basis of any organized human society; yet in
the broadest and strictest non-ethical sense they are obviously no less social than are the former
class of such impulses or behavior tendencies. They are equally common to, or universal among, all
human individuals, and, if anything, are more easily and immediately aroused by the appropriate
social stimuli; and as combined or fused with, and in a sense controlled by, the former impulses or
behavior tendencies, they are just as basic to all human social organization as are the former, and
play a hardly less necessary and significant part in that social organization itself and in the
determination of its general character. Consider, for example, from among these "hostile" human
impulses or attitudes, the functioning or expression or operation of those of self-protection and self-
preservation in the organization and organized activities of any given human society or social
community, let us say, of a modern state or nation. Human individuals realize or become aware of
themselves as such, almost more easily and readily in terms of the social attitudes connected or
associated with these two "hostile" impulses (or in terms of these two impulses as expressed in
these attitudes) than they do in terms of any other social attitudes or behavior tendencies as
expressed by those attitudes. Within the social organization of a state or nation the "anti-social"
effects of these two impulses are curbed and kept under control by the legal system which is one
aspect of that organization; these two impulses are made to constitute the fundamental principles in
terms of which the economic system, which is another aspect of that organization, operates; as
combined and fused with, and organized by means of the "friendly" human impulses-the impulses
leading to social cooperation among the individuals involved in that organization-they are prevented
from giving rise to the friction and enmity among those individuals which would otherwise be their
natural consequence, and which would be fatally detrimental to the existence and well-being of that
organization; and having thus been made to enter as integral elements into the foundations of that
organization, they are utilized by that organization as fundamental impulsive forces in its own further
development, or they serve as a basis for social progress within its relational framework. Ordinarily,
their most obvious and concrete expression or manifestation in that organization lies in the attitudes
of rivalry and competition which they generate inside the state or nation as a whole, among different
socially functional subgroups of individuals-subgroups determined (and especially economically
determined) by that organization; and these attitudes serve definite social ends or purposes
presupposed by that organization, and constitute the motives of functionally necessary social
activities within that organization. But self-protective and self-preservational human impulses also
express or manifest themselves indirectly in that organization, by giving rise through their
association in that organization with the "friendly" human impulses, to one of the primary constitutive
ideals or principles or motives of that organization-namely, the affording of social protection, and the
lending of social assistance, to the individual by the state in the conduct of his life; and by enhancing
the efficacy, for the purposes of that organization, of the "friendly" human impulses with a sense or
realization of the possibility and desirability of such organized social protection and assistance to the
individual. Moreover, in any special circumstances in which the state or nation is, as a whole,
confronted by some danger common to all its individual members, they become fused with the
"friendly" human impulses in those individuals, in such a way as to strengthen and intensify in those
individuals the sense of organized social union and cooperative social interrelationship among them
in terms of the state; in such circumstances, so far from constituting forces of disintegration or
destruction within the social organization of the state or nation, they become, indirectly, the
principles of increased social unity, coherence, and coordination within that organization. In time of
war, for example, the self-protective impulse in all the individual members of the state is unitedly
directed against their common enemy and ceases, for the time being, to be directed among
themselves; the attitudes of rivalry and competition which that impulse ordinarily generates between
the different smaller, socially functional groups of those individuals within the state are temporarily