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The "Social Heritage" discussed in this book is the whole body of
knowledge and habit which is handed down from one human generation to
another by teaching and learning. Men have been for so many generations
dependent for their existence on this heritage that they have become
biologically unfitted to live without it, and its conscious criticism
and revision has become the main problem of human organization.
The chapters deal first with the socially inherited expedients used in
individual work and thought, and then with the expedients used in group,
national and international co-operation, with special reference to the
educational problems involved and to the present conflict between
democracy and vocationalism. The book ends with a discussion of the
efficiency as means of human co-operation of the conceptions of Liberty
and Science, and of the institutions of "Constitutional Monarchy" and
the Church. The method used throughout is the same kind of psychological
analysis as that used in the Author's "Human Nature in Politics" (1908)
and "The Great Society" (1914).