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422 The Ideal of Human Unityunits and creates intermediary unities between the two withoutwhich there can be no full development either of the totality orof the units. In the life-type itself she creates always the threeterms of genus, species and individual. But while in the animallife she is satisfied to separate rigidly and group summarily, inthe human she strives, on the contrary, to override the divisionsshe has made and lead the whole kind to the sense of unityand the realisation of oneness. Man’s communities are formednot so much by the instinctive herding together of a number ofindividuals of the same genus or species as by local association,community of interests and community of ideas; and these limitstend always to be overcome in the widening of human thoughtsand sympathies brought about by the closer intermingling ofraces, nations, interests, ideas, cultures. Still, if overcome intheir separatism, they are not abolished in their fact, becausethey repose on an essential principle of Nature, — diversity inunity. Therefore it would seem that the ideal or ultimate aimof Nature must be to develop the individual and all individualsto their full capacity, to develop the community and all communitiesto the full expression of that many-sided existence andpotentiality which their differences were created to express, andto evolve the united life of mankind to its full common capacityand satisfaction, not by suppression of the fullness of life ofthe individual or the smaller commonalty, but by full advantagetaken of the diversity which they develop. This would seem thesoundest way to increase the total riches of mankind and throwthem into a fund of common possession and enjoyment.The united progress of mankind would thus be realised bya general principle of interchange and assimilation between individualand individual and again between individual and community,between community and community and again betweenthe smaller commonalty and the totality of mankind, betweenthe common life and consciousness of mankind and its freelydeveloping communal and individual constituents. As a matterof fact, although this interchange is what Nature even now contrivesto bring about to a certain extent, life is far from beinggoverned by such a principle of free and harmonious mutuality.