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of heredity leads us to recognise that there is a very 

 real unity even between members physically discon- 

 tinuous. 



The peculiarity of human society, as distinguished 

 from animal societies, depends mainly on the fact that 

 man is a social person, and knows himself as such. Man 

 is the realisation of antecedent societies, and it is man's 

 realisation of himself as a social person which makes 

 human society what it is, and gives us a promise of what 

 it will be. As biologists, and perhaps as philosophers, 

 we are led to conclude that man is determined by that 

 whole of which he is a part, and yet that his life is social 

 freedom ; that society is the means of his development, 

 and at the same time its end ; that man has to some 

 extent realised himself in societv, and that societv has 



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been to some extent realised in man. 



11. Conclusions.- -The facts lead us to agree with 

 Kropotkin that ' sociability is as much a law of nature 

 as mutual struggle " ; with Espinas that " Le milieu 

 social est la condition necessaire de la conservation et 

 du renouvellement de la vie " ; and with Rousseau that 

 ' man did not make society, but society made man." 



