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Identifikator:: 1896933912

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

Collection:: Economics Books

THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP 203 no room for individual variations. The strong individualis- tic character of the group prevents an expression of per- sonal individuality on the one hand and an approach to other groups on the other hand. Both aspects of the correlation are exemplified in the political life of the American people before the Civil War. The southern states were populated mostly by adventur- ous individuals with no particular tendency toward local self-government. Their counties were large but colorless administrative units, and their real political unity resided in the state. The people of the northern states settled mostly in groups. They formed small local townships, which absorbed and regulated a large part of the personal life. But these narrow local structures possessed as a whole a much more individualistic character. The New England states were not combinations of individuals. but com- binations of townships. The apparently existing n=ed for a fixed quantum of differentiation and conformity which seems determined by personal, social, and historical circumstances can evi- dently be satisfied in different forms. The individual leads in a way a double existence. In his private life he is con- scious of his delimitation from his other group members. In his social life, that is, as a group member, he is conscious of his delimitation from everything that lies outside of his group. It is for this reason that the differentiation within the group can compensate for the lack of differentiation between groups, and vice versa, thus maintaining the fixed balance between variation and conformity. Although membership in a small circle is in general much less favorable for a complete development of the indi- viduality than membership in a large group, there is an in- teresting exception. In the large and wide cultural com- munities of modern civilization, the membership in a

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