Following Aristotle, " Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human " (Politika, ca. 328 BC). This is more than an abstract philosophical statement if, twenty five centuries after the great Greek philosopher, domains as diverse as psychology, physiology and neurology, just to mention a few, still i...

This book fails to satisfy, though never to interest, by attempting to encompass too much ground in too small a volume. In effect, Dr. Seward has essayed to write simultaneously a textbook of experimental and social psychology, a popular encyclopaedia of sex knowledge and a Left Wing political tract on Woman's Rights. Because of this it is by no means clear for which section of the population t...