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Character & History

  • Society is founded not on the ideals but on the nature of man, and the constitution of man rewrites the constitutions of states.
  • Human beings are normally equipped by “nature” with positive and negative instincts, whose function it is to preserve the individual, the family, the group, or the species.
  • Each instinct generates habits and is accompanied by feelings.
  • Their totality is the nature of man.
  • Evolution in man during recorded time has been social rather than biological.
  • Imitation is opposed to innovation, but in vital ways it co-operates with it.
  • As submissive natures unite with masterful individuals to make the order and operation of a society, so the imitative majority follows the innovating minority, and this follows the originative individual, in adapting new responses to the demands of environment or survival.
  • History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds the victor and supplies the human material of social experiment.

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