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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I THE MENTAL CHARACTERS OF MAN OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE FOR HIS LIFE IN SOCIETY -- CHAPTER II THE NATURE OF INSTINCTS AND THEIR PLACE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN MIND -- CHAPTER III THE PRINCIPAL INSTINCTS AND THE PRIMARY EMOTIONS OF MAN -- The instinct of flight and the emotion of fear -- The instinct of repulsion and the emotion of disgust -- The instinct of curiosity and the emotion of wonder -- The instinct of pugnacity and the emotion of anger -- The instincts of self-abasement (or subjection) and of self-assertion (or self-display), and the emotions of subjection and elation (or negative and positive self-feeling) -- The parental Instinct and the tender emotion -- CHAPTER IV SOME GENERAL OR NON-SPECIFIC INNATE TENDENCIES -- Sympathy or the sympathetic induction of the emotions -- Suggestion and suggestibility -- Imitation -- The tendency to play and the emulative impulse -- Temperament -- CHAPTER V THE NATURE OF THE SENTIMENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOME OF THE COMPLEX EMOTIONS -- Complex emotions that do not imply the existence of sentiments -- CHAPTER VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENTIMENTS -- CHAPTER VII THE GROWTH OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND OF THE SELF-REGARDING SENTIMENT -- CHAPTER VIII THE ADVANCE TO THE HIGHER PLANE OF SOCIAL CONDUCT -- CHAPTER IX VOLITION -- SECTION II THE OPERATION OF THE PRIMARY TENDENCIES OF THE HUMAN MIND IN THE LIFE OF SOCIETIES -- CHAPTER X THE REPRODUCTIVE AND THE PARENTAL INSTINCTS -- CHAPTER XI THE INSTINCT OF PUGNACITY -- CHAPTER XII THE GREGARIOUS INSTINCT -- CHAPTER XIII THE INSTINCTS THROUGH WHICH RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS AFFECT SOCIAL LIFE -- CHAPTER XIV THE INSTINCTS OF ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER XV IMITATION, PLAY, AND HABIT.

This book, first published 1931, examines the attitudes surrounding the natural sciences at the time of writing, and contends that an unreflective belief in the power of science, and especially in humanity's capacity to turn such knowledge to noble ends, could lead to catastrophic results for human civilisation. Commenting on the forced industrialisation in Russia, India and China that was proceeding with little regard for human life at the time, the unsustainable inequality generated by modern Western capitalism and many other related issues, the author argues that it is necessary to devote t