They are, then, 'subjects' as I am--something richer than the mere 'projects' which I had supposed." So other persons become essentially like himself; and not only like himself, but identical with himself so far as the particular marks are concerned which he has learned from them.

For it will be remembered that all these marks were at first actually taken up by imitation from these very persons.

The child is now giving back to his parents, teachers, etc., only the material which he himself took from them.

He has enriched it, to be sure; with it he now reads into the other persons the great fact of subjective agency; but still whatever he thinks of them has come by way of his thought of himself, and that in turn was made up from them.
This view of the other person as being the same in the main as the self who thinks of the other person, is what psychologists mean when they speak of the "ejective" self.

It is the self of some one else as I think of it; in other words, it is myself "ejected" out by me and lodged in him.
_The Social and Ethical Sense._--From this we see what the Social Sense is.