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tution we may often hear the aspiration to 

 federate the nations and even the races. 

 Seers, poets, and philosophers have long since 

 expressed it ; seemingly the ancient Stoic had 

 already some such ideal. In general the 

 proposition seems to hold good that the lower 

 the man, the people, the race, the less their 

 power of institutional association, which is 

 getting to be known as the final test of human 

 worth and efficiencv. 



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Still the strong counterstroke to this trend 

 of mankind is not to be omitted. Always 

 moving with, yet struggling against institu- 

 tionalism is found its fierce antagonist, anar- 

 chism, which, however, takes many forms, 

 from bitter bloody destruction to mild moral 

 suasion. In literature there has ever been a 

 loud anti-institutional voice, often that of the 

 genius of the time, like Byron and Walt Whit- 

 man for instance, and even Goethe during one 

 period of his career. And this deeply hostile 

 spirit has not failed to proceed from the 

 word to the deed as in the French Revolu- 

 tion. So the supreme institutional move- 

 ment of humanity has its opponents within 

 its own ranks both doing and protesting, 

 who make up the negative element belonging 

 to the complete process. 



The unity of man through institutional as- 

 sociation would seem to be the outlook. Not 



