SOURCE: "Graham Wallas: Reason and Emotion in Social Change," in Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 2, January, 1942, pp. 142-60.

In the following essay, Waldo examines Wallas's project of synthesizing reason and emotion in his political theory.

The pioneering contributions of Graham Wallas in a number of fields of inquiry, among them social psychology and the study of public opinion, are well known and widely acknowledged. Much less well known, generally disregarded are the reflections upon the nature, function and methods of the social studies, which form the essential matrix of his early works and are the very substance of his later writings. Several years have now passed since the appearance of the posthumous fragment, Social Judgment. It is the opinion of the writer that meanwhile the main currents of social philosophy in this country have flowed in the direction of the positions which Wallas reached in this...