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ence, there would have been no destruction of forms 

 already risen or arising." 2 



Manifestly the effort has been to bridge the chasm 

 between the unit and its component to the end that 

 the Darwinian movement might be continuous. If 

 altruism could be smuggled into the system of things, 

 then integration would be seen to be a factor of 

 evolution a " neglected " one, to be sure, but one 

 upon which emphasis could be placed as occasion re- 

 quired. 



Although it is not possible to define the higher life- 

 processes in terms of the lower, we are able to in- 

 duce from the previous involutions of the life-move- 

 ment certain elements that will at least point the 

 way for the human unit. This is where the group 

 analysis stands us in good stead. 



Even as early as the second period the structural 

 unit showed a certain degree of individual variation 

 a characteristic which became more marked with 

 each succeeding period, the greater complexity of 

 the organism rendering such increase possible. 

 With the increase in differentiation went a growing 

 augmentation of the compounding or socialising 

 tendency. The importance of a right balancing of 

 these two forces finds negative testimony in the many 

 colony formations that have failed of the organic 

 unity essential to integration, not to mention the 



2 KORSCHINSKY: Naturwssenschaftliche Wochenschrift, vol. 

 xiv. 



