ABSTRACT

WE have now seen the unity that underlies all the forms of communal development. It is the unity which life, if we seek deeply enough, always reveals. As in each life, so in the continuity of life through successive generations, all the characters of development reveal a single principle. All growth of personality in the members of community involves a correspondent change in their relations to one another, in the social structure, in the customs, institutions, and associations of community. The development of persons and the development of interpersonal relations thus form a single field of study, though we may centre our interests on one or other aspect. In this work our interest has been centred on the interpersonal or social aspect, but we must start from the unity of both aspects in order to understand it. This was revealed in our first law, which gave the clue to the whole development. Socialisation and individualisation develop pari pas8U. The unity of these two factors is revealed in every life as well as in the whole they constitute, for that unity is personality. This must be the basis of any account of communal development. The actual development of per80nality attained in and through community by its member8 is the measure of the importance these attach to per80nality both in themselve8 and in their fello'w-men. By aid of this clue we can bring all the