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CONCLUSIONS 



Quite apart from attempts at interpretation, and considering 

 groups only from their behavioral or functional aspects, inde- 

 pendent of the organisms which have produced them, or the 

 morphology and physiology of these, the following specific con- 

 clusions are warranted from the facts of the preceding pages: 



1. The totality of all group activities beat by organisms may 

 be represented in a generalized form, as follows: 



a-G, b-G, c-G, d-G, e-G, w-G, x-G, y-G, z-G 



2. The coefficients of this series may generally be substituted 

 for, 



a. By one, several, or very many groups of the order i, a 2 , 

 a 3 , a 4 , etc., these being functional units of varying degrees of 

 stability, the degree varying inversely with their numbers, and 

 themselves being generally incapable of further description 

 except in a hypothetical genetic sense. 



6. by simple multiples of such type groups of the order i, 

 2 , 03, etc., and their halves, or by physiological multiples or 

 halves. 



c. by varieties of such type groups whose frequencies will gen- 

 erally be in inverse ratio to their deviation from their type form. 



d. by the sums of such type groups, or by the sums of their 

 multiples, each taken any number of tunes. 



e. by modifications of the above kinds of types of groups due 

 to environmental factors, or to internal causes, in which case 

 such modified groups are not generally capable of analysis with- 

 out a complete description of the modifying factors. 



3. Generally the same analytical methods are applicable to the 

 group activities of all observers, who differ only in the number of 

 type groups of the order a\ 2 0s which they beat, and their 

 respective frequencies. 



