"Syntelic" (from the Greek _telos_, end) means that ends are shared.
The synnomic phase is, from the psychological point of view, a kingdom of habit; the syntelic phase is a kingdom of reflection.

The former is governed by a subconscious selection of its standards of good and bad; the latter by a conscious selection of its standards.

It remains to show very briefly how such a difference comes about.
The outstanding fact about the synnomic life of the ruder peoples is perhaps this--that there is hardly any privacy.

Of course, many other drawbacks must be taken into account also--no wide-thrown communications, no analytic language, no writing, no books, and so on; but perhaps being in a crowd all the time is the worst drawback of all.

For, as Disraeli says in _Sybil_, gregariousness is not association.