Conclusion. 
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should not reconstitute itself on the same better principles. The 
question arises, is the psychic man realized in the individual or in so¬ 
ciety? Is psychology complete when it isolates the individual person¬ 
ality and studies him thus, or should it at least complete its work in 
maturing the perfect concept of that flood of social purpose, instructed 
by confluent intelligence and made persuasive by fellowship 
of heart,—the social personality, which is immeasurably more than the 
sum of its constituent individualities, even as the living body is the sum 
of more than all its members and as you have not the oak when you have 
its root, its trunk, its leaves and its branches which hold them forth to- 
breathe the air of the winds of the mountains? It certainly seems likely^ 
that, obeying the widening comprehension of all thought, social psycho¬ 
logy will inherit the interest of scholarship not long hence—the empiri¬ 
cal science of the social mind. 
All things force us to the conclusion, that, while the science of which 
I have been speaking is reverend with the growth of many years and by the> 
record of many who have been made illustrious in its study and teach¬ 
ing, it has most interesting and momentous inquiries yet for the stud¬ 
ent to consider—new fields to conquer. Certain it is that, such is the 
relation of psychology to science as science, no conquests in the field of 
other sciences can be made settled realms of human possession so that 
man can call them his and be much greatened and ennobled by their 
influence, save so far as by this science of the mind the endowments, 
in whose hands can be found the title deeds of their certain tenure, are 
disclosed. 
