Outlines of Lectures in Elementary Economics, Brown University: Course I. Historical and Descriptive (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The idea of an organism is borrowed from the animal and vegetable world, and is applied to social groups only by analogy. The justification of this application is that it emphasizes certain fundamental characteristics of social groups, which are apt to be overlooked, the understanding of which is, however, essential to the development of social science.

I. The individual in all that concerns his existence and progress is not independent of, but fundamentally, related to and dependent upon, other individuals with whom he is associated in social groups, and his actions and even his character are largely determined by the character and organization of the groups to which he belongs.

These groups, therefore, may be treated as units of which individuals are the constituent but subordinate elements.

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