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6 Community Guidance 1^ 



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This beginning of a notation may next be carried on beyond family 

 levels into wider community guidances, as described by anthropo- 

 logists or recorded by historians — so from simplest village council 

 and court, to Roman Senate or yet wider groupings at Geneva to-day: 

 but into these we need not enter here. 



It will be evident that this beginning of a notation may be further 

 developed, as to outline other and further developments, of family 

 to society, as described by anthropologists; but into these we need 

 not enter either. That this sexual and family development of indi- 

 viduality is neither so fully or finely illustrated in our present 

 civilisation as it has been in others is a matter for the sociologist 

 to inquire into : our point here is but to note (and notate) the normal 

 bio-social and bio-psychic processes and factors. These explain those 

 elemental superiorities of individuality in maturity and age (despite 

 decreasing numbers and even declining physical strength), which 

 are more or less manifest throughout all forms and phases of human 

 societies. It also becomes evident that this first outline diagram 

 may be adapted, as by the eugenist, to each family's development ; 

 and it may also be carried further upwards into all forms of social 

 development, with associated political or other ascendency; and of 

 course in peace and war. 



Yet more important, however, is to note that in so far as this 

 ascending ladder of individuality is not climbed, there are corre- 

 sponding opportunities — manifest throughout life and history and 

 largely availed of — in the opposite direction, and with corresponding 

 ob-individuations. Thus leaving the reader to draft this outline — 

 which he can vary and elaborate to suit the particular problems it 

 may suggest — ^we may note the easy descent, from the initial normal 

 level of nutritive self-maintenance to that of excess or misuse, as 

 from childish greed to our frequent adult gluttony and intemperance, 

 our resultant sloth, and our drug-habits, whether for promotion of 

 this, or arousal from it. With the onset of sex, especially in those 

 missing the first step of the ascending ladder, it is only too easy to 

 find the corresponding step downwards ; and so to range this through 

 any to every form of pseudo-celibate licence ; and also to reach the 

 next lower one, of adultery and its family disintegration. Again, 

 when the further and fuller individuality of responsibility, widened 

 beyond immediate family, is not ascended to, the corresponding 



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