ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the "underlying groups" without attempting to specify them systematically. It interprets in terms of the groups differentiated in the human material. There is a representative process involved in the pressures in animal and vegetable life, different enough in technique from that of the social world, which nevertheless cannot safely be overlooked. The chapter explains how some of the peculiarities in the operation of our wide-extended suffrage depend upon such factors, but the people can see at the same time how these factors themselves are the outgrowth of underlying group interests and can only be given independent attention by abstraction from those interests. An industrial corporation is, of course, in one way the "creature" of law, but more fundamentally the tendencies to joint operation in industry are the creators of the corporation law itself.
