SOURCE: “Wilfred Trotter's Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War,” in Sociological Review, Vol. 35, 1943, pp. 44-7.

Chapman praises the construction of The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.

Wilfred Trotter, the great surgeon who helped to save George the Fifth's life, died in November 1939, aged sixty-seven. His outstanding book, published in 1916, falls historically and bibliographically into three parts; (1) the first two essays in the book (pp. 1-66 of the first edition); (2) the main part; (3) the “Postscript” of 1919.

(1) In 1905 (or thereabouts) Trotter wrote an essay which he called “Herd Instinct and its Bearing upon the Psychology of Civilized Man.” The essay was designed as one; but because of its bulk it was abridged, and was published in The Sociological Review, July 1908 and January 1909, as two articles, “Herd Instinct and its Bearing on the Psychology of Civilized Man” and “Sociological Applications of the Psychology of Herd Instinct...