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say, of emotion in- its most important manifesta- 

 tions which are in the social integration. If one 

 takes up any of its leading textbooks on psy- 

 chology at the present time it is to encounter 

 the strange spectacle of every Western writer on 

 the subject, with the prominent exception of 

 Mr. William M c Dougall and a small group, think- 

 ing and theorizing about the facts of emotion 

 almost as if emotion related only to the indi- 

 vidual. Emotion is considered as some relatively 

 inferior quality in the individual closely associated 

 with the animal past and mainly connected with 

 functions which man shares with the animal 

 world. The science of emotion in its collec- 

 tive aspects is practically a sealed book to the 

 West. 



Throughout the stages of the great world war, 

 for instance, it was a matter of daily occurrence, in 

 the Western press and particularly in the press of 

 Great Britain, to see the German peoples con- 

 temptuously referred to as the mo3t emotional 

 race in Europe : as if this description at once 

 decisively relegated them to a category of inferiority. 

 Of course the German people were emotional. 

 The stupendous lesson in Power which Germany 

 was giving the world was in all its phases and 

 issues a lesson in the illimitable and incalculable 

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