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Everything living forms an association, a 

 collective whole. The moneron itself, the 

 living cell, the irreducible expression of the 

 biological individuality, is also an aggregate 

 of different parts (nucleus, nucleolus, proto- 

 plasm), and each of these in its turn is an 

 aggregate of molecules, which are aggregates 

 of atoms. 



The atom does not exist alone as an indi- 

 vidual ; the atom is invisible and impalpable, 

 and does not live. And the complexity of 

 the aggregate, the federation of parts, increases 

 continually as we pass in the zoological 

 series from the protozoa to man. 



The unifying and equalising Jacobin artifi- 

 cialism corresponds to the metaphysics of 

 individualism just as the conception of 

 national and international federalism corre- 

 sponds to the positive character of scientific 

 socialism. 



The organism of a mammal is only a 

 federation of tissues, organs, structure ; the 

 organism of a society can only consist of a 

 federation of townships, provinces, regions : 

 the organism of humanity can only consist of 

 a federation of nations. 



If it is absurd to conceive of a mammal 

 whose head, for instance, should move in the 

 same manner as its extremities, and its 

 extremities should all move together, there is 

 no less absurdity in a political and adminis- 

 trative organism in which the province in the 

 extreme North, or the mountainous province, 

 for instance, should have the same official 



