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Democracy and Emotion

Russell, Bertrand | January 23, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "Emotion As the Basis of Civilization," by J.H. Denison. This book does not deal, as its title might suggest, with the psychoanalytic treatment of political institutions; it is concerned with a different and less modern type of considerations, broadly speaking the same as those which inspired Bagehot's "English Constitution." The main topic with which it is concerned is social coherence, which it says can be achieved in two ways, one of which it calls patriarchal and the other fratriarchal.

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