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living animal, these differences in human individuals 

 indicate not only the manner in which society actually 

 has grown up and acquired its organization but, in a 

 general way, the direction in which further growth 

 and organization must take place, if at all. Class dif- 

 ferences are primarily due to inevitable differences in 

 the time and place of birth of different individuals, 

 and to personal differences in their physical structure 

 and mental powers. They inevitably increase with 

 every stage of social growth. Further social growth, 

 or progress, is possible only by increasing these differ- 

 ences and by rinding new and better ways to utilize 

 them cooperatively. 



Class interests are those things which are concerned 

 with the growth and preservation of these functional, 

 or class, differences. They are therefore of paramount 

 importance, secondary only to those of individual life. 

 They are essentially the same in every social group in 

 corresponding stages of social evolution. 



To understand and to react intelligently to these 

 internal conditions is of more immediate importance 

 than the solution of the larger and more remote prob- 

 lems of internationalism; for when they are under- 

 stood, and not till then, internationalism will take care 

 of itself in due time and sequence, through the out- 

 ward extension of the same methods of cooperation to 

 larger groups. 



For social growth and organization proceed from 

 the small to the large, not from the large to the small. 

 If man is not at heart truly democratic; if he still pre- 

 serves the spirit of uncompromising arrogance and the 

 ultimate hope of any kind of dominion over others; 

 if he is not willing to pay the price of social coopera- 



