The Monist

Volume 36, Issue 1, January 1926

James Ward (1843-1925)

H. C. Dowdall
Pages 111-135

The Application of Ward's Psychology to the Legal Problem of Corporate Entity

The unity of the group mind is a psychoplastic unity. In the group mind subjects are integrated through an object and not objects through a subject. It follows, among many much more important consequences, that a scientific analysis and arrangement of the law relating to corporations should proceed in the manner practically indicated in the Law of Limited Companies, Corporations Sole, Trusts, Bankruptcy, Local Government, and so forth, that is to say, by the estatificatian of interests and not by the pretended incorporation of people.