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for unity. And it is only when we have seen, that the essential 

 nature of species is not purity, but eventual purity, automatic 

 reduction of variability given in the constitution and situation, 

 that we can understand why mass-immigration will make the 

 nation which it affects into onegreat "Paarungsgenossenschaft, ' ' 

 one great community, within which, random matings are the 

 rule, and within which, there is only a slight tendency to specif- 

 ic differentiation. 



We saw that the dislike against being ruled by a foreign spe- 

 cies, is simply a manisfestation of the wish to regulate our 

 affairs in common with those, whom we think are fundament- 

 ally as like to us as our parents and brothers and children are. 

 Wherever men feel as in some European countries that a na- 

 tion is composed essentially of two species, we see them be- 

 come conscious of the possibility of injustice. Where a minority 

 of privileged people practically monopolize the affairs of gov- 

 ernment, men are beginning to see that the present state of 

 affairs is unfair to the other species, the numerical majority. 

 They themselves in their turn, would dislike to see their affairs 

 regulated by committees of workers and soldiers, and at the 

 same time they are beginning to doubt whether the workers 

 and soldiers will continue to submit to a government by the 

 other species, and see important matters of state arranged by 

 them. It becomes more and more obvious, that with an awake- 

 ning of what is called "Class-conscious ness" but what we 

 would prefer to call a "feeling of specific unity and specific 

 distinction", a reversal becomes probable. The majority, if 

 beginning to feel that it has no voice in proportion to its num- 

 bers in regulating the law-making and governing, and feeling 

 different from the ruling species, will want to overthrow 

 things and govern in its turn. In this connection we must re- 

 member, that there is no real wish deeply rooted in any spe- 

 cies of man, or in any great number of individual men (mis- 

 sionaries excepted), to meddle with the affairs of another spe- 

 cies of men, in so far as these do not interfere with the inter- 

 ests of his own species. What most people want is to be free 



