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Life and Love. 



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XXII. 



MAN AND THE COMMUNITY. 



UMAN life presents its greatest difficulties to 

 our understanding, because it is not the life 

 of the individual alone, 

 but the life of society, 

 which must be consid- 

 ered. In most of the 

 lower animals the con- 

 trolling causes are few 

 and simple, and directly 

 referable to the crea- 

 ture's surroundings in 

 Nature. 



In civilized man the 

 Nature surroundings play 

 a very subordinate part. 

 He controls Nature in- 

 stead of being controlled 

 by her ; therefore it is 

 not Nature's influence on 

 man, but the far more 

 complex condition of 

 man's influence on man 

 which has to be studied. 

 In other words, it is the 

 influence of mind instead 



