A We-Feeling-This is the feeling that leads men to identify themselves with others so that when they say “we” there is no thought of distinction and when they say “ours” there is no thought of division. This “we-sentiment” is found wherever men have common interest, and thus throughout group life, but is revealed nowhere more clearly than where the interest is the territorial community.
B. Role-Feeling-This feeling, involving subordination to the whole on the part of the individual is fostered by training and habituation in the daily discipline of life, so that each person feels he has a role to play, his own function to fulfill in the reciprocal exchanges of the social scene.
C. Dependency-Feeling-This refers to the individual sense of dependence upon the community as a necessary condition of his own life. This involves both a physical dependence, since his material wants are satisfied within it, and a psychological dependence, since the community is the greater “home” that sustains him, embodying all that is at least familiar, if not wholly congenial to his life. The community is a refuge from the solitude and fears that accompany that individual isolation so characteristic of our modern life.