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made opportunity also for the growth of social habits with- 

 out thought. In the social organism, as well as in the physical, 

 things have run their course unchecked by environing 

 conditions. Traditions are usually cherished quite irrespec- 

 tive of their usefulness. 



FIG. 284. A stylish young Botocudo Indian (Brazil). Psychological orthogenesis. 

 (After Brinton). 



Social integration. Society is first an aggregate and 

 afterwards an integrate of human beings. The social or- 

 ganism has followed the same developmental methods that 

 have perfected the multi-cellular body, and made of it 

 an integrate organism. Ancient history is filled with end- 

 less experiments at social integration. The parts brought 

 together at first lacked the essential bond of mutual de- 

 pendence. They were alike save for the differentiation of 

 the sexes, and each man, or at least each family, was- 

 capable of getting along alone. Differentiation and divis- 

 ion of labor was necessary here as in the physical organisms 

 to create the need of one part for the complemental parts 

 that should bind all indissolubly together. 



