330 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



Rite as the expression in time and circumstance, belief as rationalisation, 

 and feeling as the central core of the religious consciousness. The distinc- 

 tion between magic and religion in mental attitude and practice ; bad (i.e. 

 anti-social) v. good (i.e. social) ways of dealing with the unknown ; impersonal 

 V. personal conceptions ; coercive v. propitiatory behaviour ; self-assertive 

 and self-subjective attitudes. The origins of magic and religion ; the 

 overflowing of pent-up emotion and desire into representation of what is 

 desired ; sympathetic magic ; art and ritual. The inwardness of taboo ; 

 the influence of the great crises of life. The multiple source of the belief 

 in unseen beings, personal and impersonal. The evolution of divine 

 characteristics. The meaning of sacrifice ; the scapegoat. 



The lingerings of magic in the civilised ; superstition, luck and charm. 



The present facts of the religious life ; blending of negative self-feeling, 

 wonder, fear and tender emotion into awe and reverence. Saintliness, 

 mysticism and asceticism. 



The phenomena of conversion and its significance as a developmental 

 crisis ; the conflict between the instinctive man and the higher moral vision 

 comes to a head ; the ' sense of sin ' ; the ' surrender ' as a ripening of the 

 higher psychic functionings, the personal laying hold of the larger signifi- 

 cances (God, Humanity, Goodness) ; there may be steady growth with 

 little mark of crisis. Religious revivals. The relation between religion 

 and morality. The reality of the sense of guilt as a permanent human 

 problem. 



Books for Reading and Reference. 



Section I. 



Addams : The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. 



Board of Education Consultative Committee Report : The Education of the 

 A dolescent. 



Differentiation of the Curriculum for Boys and Girls in Secondary Schools. 



Blanch ARD : The Care of the Adolescent Child. 

 Bray : The Town Child. 



Boy Labour and Apprenticeship. 



Brooks : The Psychology of Adolescence. 

 Burt : The Young Delinquent. 

 Dewey : Schools of Tomorrow. 



New Schools for Old. 



Ellis : The Criminal. 



Findlay : The Children of England. 



Flugel : The Psycho-analytic Study of the Family. 



Freeman : Boy Life and Labour. 



Freud : The Ego and the Id. 



Group Psychology and the A nalysis of the Ego. 



Hadfield : Psychology and Morals. 

 Hall : Adolescence. 



Youth. 



Howard : The Mixed School. 

 Healy : The Individual Delinquent. 



Pathological Lying, Accusation and Swindling. 



HoARE : The Schools and Social Reform. 

 Hollingworth : The Psychology of Sub-normal Children. 

 Holmes : Psychology and Crime. 

 Lane : Talks to Parents and Teachers. 

 Maccurdy : Psychology of Emotion. 

 McDougall : The Group Mind. 



An Introduction to Social Psychology. 



Morrison : Crime and its Causes. 



