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degrees of development, but the com- 

 position of the organic edifice is in all 

 essential features exactly the same. 

 The differences are literally only ap- 

 parent, being due as they are to the 

 different aspect they present to our ob- 

 servation. 



While we at first apprehend animals 

 and plants as units, not seeing the in- 

 dividual cells by which they are com- 

 posed, we, in the national organisms, on 

 the contrary, first perceive the cells 

 themselves — ^the human individuals — 

 but are unable to grasp the nations as 

 individually living organisms. On the 

 one hand we see directly only the so- 

 cial side, on the other, only the organic. 



If there are beings observing the hu- 

 man community as we see plants and 

 animals, they would comprehend so- 

 ciety as a unit composed of different 

 trades and industries, but not as com- 

 posed of men, who are the building ma- 

 terial in these members. If such postu- 

 lated observers made an invention cor- 

 responding to our microscope, they 



