Abstract
DR. R. M. MACIVER'S study of community is a plea for the validity and importance of the individual life. The meaning of society is found within the constituent members. Social and in dividual claims are complementary to each other. Individual autonomy is realisable only within society. The liberty of the self proves itself in the relation of the self with other selves; for freedom is but a means of life, and not life itself. Social order involves the adjustment of individual claims to each other. Communal life is charac terised by reciprocal action, and the wonder of the universe is the essential harmony of personal values working in and through society.
Community: A Sociological Study, being an Attempt to set out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life.
By Dr. R. M. MacIver. Pp. xv + 437. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 12s. net.
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S., W. Community: A Sociological Study, being an Attempt to set out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life . Nature 100, 124–125 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100124a0
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