Contents -- Preface to the Fourteenth Edition -- Chapter I: -- Introduction -- Section I: -- The Mental Characters of Man of Primary Importance for His Life in Society -- Chapter II: The Nature of Instincts and Their Place in the Constitution of the Human Mind -- Chapter III: -- The Principal Instincts and the Primary Emotions of Man -- Chapter IV: -- Some General or Non-Specific Innate Tendencies -- Chapter V: -- The Nature of the Sentiments and the Constitution of Some of the Complex Emotions. -- Chapter VI: -- The Development of the Sentiments. -- Chapter VII: -- The Growth of Self-consciousness and of the Self-Regarding Sentiment -- Chapter VIII: -- The Advance to the Higher Plane -- Chapter IX: -- Volition -- Section II: -- The Operation of the Primary Tendencies of the Human Mind in the Life of Societies -- Chapter X: -- The Reproductive and the Parental Instincts -- Chapter XI: -- The Instinct of Pugnacity -- Chapter XII: -- The Gregarious Instinct. -- Chapter XIII: -- The Instincts through which Religious Conceptions Affect Social Life -- Chapter XIV: -- The Instincts of Acquisition and Construction -- Chapter XV: -- Imitation, Play, and Habit. -- Supplementary Chapter I: -- Theories of Action -- Supplementary Chapter II: -- The Sex Instinct -- Supplementary Chapter III: -- The Derived Emotions -- Notes.