Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White.
- William Alanson White
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after / by William A. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![as a distinct end in itself, often, if not al¬ ways, of superior importance to the wel¬ fare of the individual members. To kill a member of the group, for example, tend¬ ed to weaken the strength of that group and, by that same token, to make it less ef¬ fective as a protective device for the in¬ dividual members, the one who did the kill¬ ing as well as the others. Therefore there arose a situation in which the interests of the individual and the interests of the herd were not the same, they were opposed and in consequence the group being more pow¬ erful than any individual member of it, the interests of the individual had to give way to those of the group. Killing, therefore, had to be done only with the consent of the herd when it felt that its interests as a group demanded it. Individual feuds tended to give place to the more orderly [18]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817432_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
