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GENESIS OF TECHNIC 



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It is to be realized tliat the successive stages represent characteristic 

 phases of iiormal and continuous growth, and hence that their relations 

 are intimate and complex. The fundamental factor of the growth is 

 intellectual advancement, and hence in actual life each stage is at once 

 the germ and the foundation for the next liigher; each stage is charac- ' 

 terized by a type or a cognate series of types, yet each commonly con- 



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Flij. 38— Diagrammatic outline of industrial dcvelupmeut. 



tains a few forms prophetic of the next stage aiid many forms vestigial 

 of the earlier stages ; so that the stages are to be likened unto successive 

 generations of organisms, or (still more appropriately) to the successive 

 phases of ovum, larva, pupa, and imago in the ontogeny of the insect 

 rather than to the arbitrary classes of pigeonhole arrangements. The 

 complex relations conceived to exist among the stages pan be indicated 

 more clearly by diagraphic representation than by typographic an-ange- 

 ment, and such a representation is introduced as figure 38, The succes- 

 sive curves in the diagram express the rhythmic character of progress 

 and the cumulative value of its interrelated factors, as well as the domi- 

 nance of successive types until gradually sapped and absorbed (though 

 not immediately or completely annihilated) by higher types reflecting 

 a strengthened mentality. 



The place of the normal pacific industries of the Seri in this genetic 

 classification of human technic is definite. The Seri craft combines the 

 features of the zoomimic and protolithic stages more completely than 

 that of any other known folk, and in such wise as to I'eveal the relations 



