...established. Though discrete instead of concrete, the social aggregate is rendered a living whole. § 222. But now, on pursuing the course of thought opened...feeling in the mechanically-working units for the dup discharge of their functions. Hence, then, a cardinal difference in the two kinds of organisms....

...units of this, out of contact and much less rigidly held in their relative positions, cannot be so mnch differentiated as to become feelingless units and...units for the due discharge of their functions. Hence, them, a cardinal difference in the two kinds of organisms. In the one, consciousness is concentrated...

...society in this particular as if it were inorganic. ' In the one ' (the individual organism) he says, ' consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the...the other it is diffused throughout the aggregate. . . . As, then, there is no social sensorium, it results that the welfare of the aggregate, considered...

...have great illustrative value ; but the cardinal difference that there is no social sensorium (ie that in the one consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the aggregate, while in the other it is diffused throughout the aggregate) has at least one most important consequence,...

...have great illustrative value ; but the cardinal difference that there is no social sensorium (ie that in the one, consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the aggregate, while in the other it is diffused throughout the aggregate), has at least one most important consequence,...

...have great illustrative value ; but the cardinal difference that there is no social sensorium (ie that in the one, consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the aggregate, while in the other it is diffused throughout the aggregate), has at least one most important consequence,...

...organism." An objection is also raised by Mr. Spencer, on the ground that while in an animal organism " consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the aggregate, in the social organism it is diffused throughout the organism." Surely Mr. Spencer has lost sight of the lower...

...dependence of parts which constitutes organization is effectually established. 222. We now arrive at a cardinal difference in the two kinds of organisms....in a small part of the aggregate. In the other, it isdiffused throughout the aggregate : all the units possess thecapacities for happiness and misery...

...individual organism, to become specialized as seats of feeling, the tendency is checked by want of that physical cohesion which brings fixity of function;...need for feeling in the mechanically-working units lor the due discharge of their functions. Hence, then, a cardinal difference in the two kinds of organisms....

...of consciousness; in the latter there are many. " In the one," to quote Mr. Spencer's own words, " consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the...the other it is diffused throughout the aggregate." The animal body has one brain, one center of thought, feeling, and life; the social body has numberless...