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organized life and one so manifestly helpful to its members that 
it will increase by the power of attraction and by the spread of 
its principles and methods by reflective imitation on the part of 
other groups so situated that these principles and methods are 
practically imitable, and (2) by seeking to function as efficiently 
as possible in a more inclusive group; i.e., to find or make its 
place in a still larger organization. Its intrinsic goodness ! may 
be determined by social judgment, its extrinsic goodness by its 
efficiency as a member of a more inclusive organization and by its 
spread through reflective imitation on the part of other groups 
likewise inspired by a purpose of attaining the highest possible 
success measured in terms of social well-being. 
This social philosophy called social-personalism includes the 
following elements: — 
I. The supreme worth of the individual because he is the high- 
est expression of cosmic evolution as measured by his creative 
activity in the line of active material and spiritual adaptation, the 
former giving him power to coerce nature in the line of minister- 
ing to his needs, the latter giving him power (a) to react on society 
by imitative variation, innovation and suggestion; (}) to in- 
fluence men in the interest of self-satisfaction; (c) to form ideals 
and conform or adapt his life progressively to them; (d) to win 
his fellow-men by example and persuasion, to the acceptance of 
his ideals and so restore the social equilibrium disturbed by his 
creative variation from the standards of the group, and (e) in 
conjunction with others, to compel social adaptation on the part 
of social laggards and the anti-social. 
Il. The individual goal of self-development and social efficiency. 
The first is called for (r) because of the intrinsic value of person- 
ality, and (2) as a basis for passive and active adaptation both on 
the part of the individual and of society, and the second is called 
for to give specific direction to self-development and activity; 
i.e., it is not mere self-development that makes for individual 
well-being and social strength, but the kind of development that 
fits the individual for the place in social life that he can fill 
supremely well according to his capacity. This goal of social 
1 For use of the terms intrinsic and extrinsic, see Palmer, of. cit., pp. 18 f. 
