CHAPTER III

SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS

The Sociability of Children—Imaginary Conversation and its

Significance—The Nature of the Impulse to Communicate—There is

no Separation between Real and Imaginary Persons—Nor between

Thought and Intercourse—The Study and Interpretation of

Expression by Children—The Symbol or Sensuous Nucleus of

Personal Ideas—Personal Physiognomy in Art and Literature—In the

Idea of Social Groups—Sentiment in Personal Ideas—The Personal

Idea is the Immediate Social Reality—Society must be Studied in

the Imagination—The Possible Reality of Incorporeal Persons—The

Material Notion of Personality Contrasted with the Notion Based

on a Study of Personal Ideas—Self and Other in Personal

Ideas—Personal Opposition—Further Illustration and Defence of

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