ountry to the new involves profound
changes in thought and habit. In his case the change is likely to take
place slowly, but it is not less radical on that account.

The following paragraph from a recent social survey illustrates, from a
quite different point of view, the manner in which the group is involved
in changes in community life.

In short, the greatest problem for the next few years in
Stillwater is the development of a _community consciousness_.
We must stop thinking in terms of city of Stillwater, and
country outside of Stillwater, and think in terms of
_Stillwater Community_. We must stop thinking in terms of small
groups and think in terms of the entire community, no matter
whether it is industry, health, education, recreation or
religion. Anything which is good will benefit the entire
community. Any weakness will be harmful to all. Community
co-operation in all lines indicated in this report will make
this, indeed, the Queen of the St. Croix.[47]

In this case the solution of the community problem was the creation of
"community consciousness." In the case of the professional criminal the
character of the problem is determined, if we accept the description of
a writer in the _Atlantic Monthly_, by the existence among professional
criminals of a primary group consciousness:

The professional criminal is peculiar in the sense that he
lives a very intense emotional life. He is isolated in the
community. He is in it, but not of it. His social life--for all
men are social--is narrow; but just because it is narrow, it is
extremely tense. He lives a life of warfare and has the
psychology of the warrior. He is at war with the whole
community. Except his very few friends in crime he trusts no
one and fears everyone. Suspicion, fear, hatred, danger,
desperation and passion are present in a more tense form in his
life than in that of the average individual. He is restless,
ill-humored, easily roused and suspicious. He lives on the
brink of a deep precipice. This helps to explain his passionate
hatred, his brutality, his fear, and gives poignant
significance to the adage that dead men tell no tales. He holds
on to his few friends with a strength and passion rare among
people who live a more normal existence. His friends stand
between him and discovery. They are his hold upon