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that may co-operate with or militate against its growth and development; for all its arrangements and organisations will have to be adjusted to the requirements thereby suggested.

The progress and degeneration of any of the races of men are thus the indirect effects and subsidiary results of the development of mankind as a whole. What an individual nation regards as the principal factor of its own progress, as the chief and indispensable element of its own glory, is nothing but a mere by-product of the general process of the whole of human affairs. Thus considered, national achievements and self-realisations at any one epoch are only some of the symptoms of the total world-culture of the age;—and though ends in them- selves from the standpoint of