The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

Veracity and mendacity are thus of the most far-reaching significance

Every lie, whatever its content, is in its essential nature a promotion of error with reference to the mendacious subject; for

each of the other take shape so and so, and with reference to which these conceptions possess actual truth for the given case, on the other hand the actual reciprocity of the individuals is based upon the picture

In this psycho-biological respect error is co-ordinated with truth. The utilities of the external, as

persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship

Since one never can absolutely know another, as this would mean knowledge of every particular thought and feeling; since we must rather form a conception

how our objectively psychological picture of others is influenced by the real relationships of practice and of sentiment between us

customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation

All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other