ABSTRACT
The intimate bond existing between the individual and the group at every stage of the development of the former has been indicated in many recent discussions. This bond is so close, the mutual influence so profound, that the consideration of the individual's interpretation of the world would appear incomplete and partial without that of the corresponding movement in organised social life. The concurrent development of individual and racial interpretation is due, therefore, to a single factor, the new achievements of individuals so far as they are generalised and incorporated in the body of social beliefs and customs. The concurrence of individual and social interpretation in its fundamental modus operandi. The theory of the way the individual understands the world and his interpretation of it, cannot dispense with that of social evolution, any more than that interpretation itself can dispense with its social support. Every question of individual genesis to-day raises questions of social evolution.
