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The Small Free Unit and Larger Concentrated Unity 363city states. Only after this problem was solved could there beany real effort to develop not only a firmly organised but aprogressive and increasingly perfected community, not only astrong mould of social life but the free growth and completenessof life itself within that mould. This cycle we must briefly studybefore we can consider whether the intervention of a new effortat a larger aggregation is likely to be free from the danger of anew recoil in which the inner progress of the race will have, atleast temporarily, to be sacrificed in order to concentrate efforton the development and affirmation of a massive external unity.