THEORIES IN PRACTICE 381 



Each one of these hereditary factors is striv- 

 ing for recognition and endeavoring to make 

 tangibly manifest the condition or quality or 

 form or constitution of tissue that it specifically 

 represents. 



And, according to the view just presented, 

 the thousand factors that make up any given 

 complex stand in such sequential relation to each 

 other that each successive one controls in a 

 measure its predecessor in point of time, and is 

 controlled by its successor. The very newest 

 factor that has been admitted to the coalition has 

 a more powerful influence than any other single 

 member of the coalition. 



But meantime this most powerful individual 

 is after all only one among a thousand. 



In a company of a thousand men, some one 

 man is stronger than any other. But this 

 strongest individual would be infinitesimally 

 weak in comparison with the combined strength 

 of the other 999. 



This is the important thing to bear in mind. 

 The newest member in each of the thousand or 

 so hereditary "complexes" that we speak of as 

 unit characters is the most powerful individual 

 factor. But, inasmuch as the great body of 

 antecedent factors are using their influence in 

 unison in another direction, it is inconceivable 



