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countless individuals that have dropped out from the 

 life-procession in its triumphal march down the ages. 



While there have been with each period many 

 types of colony formations as a result of the lapsing 

 into heterogeneity of the composite organism, only 

 one of these has at any time attained to the unity 

 creative of a higher life-form. If these serial units, 

 unlike as they are in structure, can be said to have 

 any characteristic in common, it is that of being 

 close to the life-stock and varying in the direction of 

 the life-principle. Furthermore, the communal-self 

 was ever dependent upon the complete energising of 

 the forces composing it. And so it is that Germany 

 was the first of the sovereignties to achieve a national 

 consciousness. But is its Kultur that of the gen- 

 eral trend of civilisation? That is the vital ques- 

 tion. 



Although it is not possible to draw the line clearly 

 between the differentiative and integrative factors, 

 we may generalise to this extent : The first are more 

 concerned with inherited tendencies, while the second 

 have to do largely with the acquired characteristics 

 induced by education and environment. 



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" FOR WHEREFORE MAKE ACCOUNT OF FEVERISH 

 STARTS OF RESTLESS MEMBERS OF A DORMANT 

 WHOLE ? BUT WHEN FULL ROUSED, EACH GIANT- 

 LIMB AWAKE, EACH SINEW STRUNG, THE GREAT HEART 



