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and which give to each human being a different stamp accord- 

 ing to the place he assumes in the community. Thus the 

 community itself sees to an ever-increasing progressive 

 differentiation of human beings. 



The danger that ultimately the members of callings far 

 removed from one another will not be mutually intelligible, 

 is obviated by the fact that each individual belongs to a 

 family as well as to a profession. Since the needs of all 

 families are in the main alike, these provide that a similar 

 human foundation is retained, from which renewed under- 

 standing can always proceed ; for in all questions affecting 

 family life and the life of the people, the sensed-worlds must 

 exhibit like indications. 



The fact, so characteristic of human beings, that they 

 belong both to community and to people, has led to manifold / 

 misunderstandings. Men have tried to raise to the position 

 of the ideal of the community the ideal of the people, which 

 may be formulated as liberty, equality and fraternity ; whereas 

 the community ideal cannot read other than compulsion, 

 inequality and subordination. The reconciliation of these two 

 antitheses is the chief task of humanity. 



THE ORGANISM AS A COMMUNITY 



In comparing organisms with machines, I have pointed 

 out that, in contrast to the majority of tools and machines 

 made by man, they consist of very small units, the boundaries 

 of which by no means always coincide with the mechanically 

 conditioned boundaries of the organs. I have referred this 

 state of things to the organism's mode of genesis, and shown 

 that there are " signs of genesis " in the cell-boundaries. 



Apart from bones, hairs and similar cell-products, which 

 show no cellular structure, the whole body is composed of 

 cells which persist throughout the entire life. They all show 



