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sympathy and fellowship feelings. These obstacles may now be summed up briefly thus: (i) lack of a vital circulation in society, owing to the difficulty of intercourse ; (2) strong barriers of religion or tradition which prevent interclass assimilation and cause monopoly of civilization by the ruling minority; (3) exclusion of a majority from participation in military and politi- cal life; (4) maladministration of justice, which grants political and social privileges to some, and imposes corresponding restric- tions on others ; this policy tends to accent differences between members of the same group, and thus to foster heterogeneity ; (5) predominance of custom over mode imitation ; and (6) per- sistence of group-feeling in the passive element. This is due to : (i) consciousness of, belonging to a Culturvolk; (2) a culture so foreign that there is no common meeting-ground; (3) segrega- tion; and (4) persistence of the foreign language.

SARAH E. SIMONS. WASHINGTON, D. C.

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