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and to them come the advantages of decision ; 

 men think slowly, and theirs are the gains of 

 clear analysis. 



If these facts are accepted, we progress 

 through an increase of differentiation which 

 intensifies analytic and katabolic tendencies. 1 

 The strongest example of one extreme would 

 not be so potent as any combination of the 

 two. Elimination injures because it throws 

 back differentiations towards their undifferen- 

 tiated beginning. There is a net loss if in 

 struggle either the anabolic or katabolic is 

 cut off. We need both the more anabolic 



1 1 do not mean that all differentiations are based on these 

 tendencies. They are also complex in nature and have many 

 physical and chemical elements that vary according to their own 

 laws. They are merely representative differentiations brought 

 into prominence by the recognized differences between male and 

 female. The real point is that developed organisms are made up 

 of delicate equilibriums, the changes on one side being in an 

 opposite direction to those on the other. If one gland is acid 

 some other is alkaline, and if one is disturbed so as to make it 

 more neutral, the other is also brought back to a less differentiated 

 state. The higher the organism the greater the number of these 

 complementary differentiations and the more delicate is the equi- 

 librium that must be maintained. We should think of ourselves 

 as a loosely organized group of units, each of which is balanced 

 with some other and subject to destructive emotions if this balance 

 is disturbed. 



