Chapter I: Part I: The Group Principle

I. THE GROUP AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 19

II. THE GROUP PROCESS: THE COLLECTIVE IDEA 24

III. THE GROUP PROCESS: THE COLLECTIVE IDEA
(_continued_) 33

IV. THE GROUP PROCESS: THE COLLECTIVE FEELING 44

V. THE GROUP PROCESS: THE COLLECTIVE WILL 48

VI. THE UNIT OF THE SOCIAL PROCESS 50

VII. THE INDIVIDUAL 60

VIII. WHO IS THE FREE MAN? 69

IX. THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM 73

X. SOCIETY 75

XI. THE SELF-AND-OTHERS ILLUSION 79

XII. THE CROWD FALLACY 85

XIII. THE SECRET OF PROGRESS 93

XIV. THE GROUP PRINCIPLE AT WORK 105

XV. FROM CONTRACT TO COMMUNITY 122

PART II
THE TRADITIONAL DEMOCRACY

XVI. DEMOCRACY NOT “LIBERTY” AND “EQUALITY”: OUR
POLITICAL DUALISM 137

XVII. DEMOCRACY NOT THE MAJORITY: OUR POLITICAL FALLACY 142

XVIII. DEMOCRACY NOT THE CROWD: OUR POPULAR DELUSION 148

XIX. THE TRUE DEMOCRACY 156

XX. THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA 162

XXI. AFTER DIRECT GOVERNMENT—WHAT? 174