It is the feeling which arises in the child or man of the real identity, through its imitative origin, of all possible thoughts of self, whether yourself, myself, or some one else's self.

The bond between you and me is not an artificial one; it is as natural as is the recognition of personal individuality.

And it is doing violence to this fundamental fact to say, as social science so often assumes, that the individual naturally separates himself or his interests from the self or the interests of others.

He is, on the contrary, bound up with others from the start by the very laws of his growth.

His social action and feeling are natural to him.