ABSTRACT
The general process of social differentiation and integration leads to an interesting correlation between certain aspects of group life and certain aspects of individual existence. The small existing differences in disposition and occupation between individuals become larger because increased competition necessitates individual specialization. In the amalgamated group, the sociological counterpart of the individual differentiation will create a set of sociological structures which are already found in other groups. Public justice and the immediate social restraint of the individual by the larger group replaced the blood feud and the restraint of one small group by the other. It seems that human nature and human relationships are so constituted that the individual must rely on himself and is thrown back on his own resources if his relationships surpass a certain number. This holds for the quantitative extension of the circle, which must necessarily reduce the personal interest of the individual in each point of the circle.
