ABSTRACT
In a truly organic life the individual is self-conscious and devoted to his own work, but feels himself and that work as part of a large and joyous whole. Individual is self-assertive, just because he is conscious of being a thread in the great web of events, of serving effectually as a member of a family, a state, of humanity, and of whatever greater whole his faith may picture. From one point of view it would appear that the new communication ought to encourage individuality of all kinds; it makes it easier to get away from a given environment and to find support in one more congenial. Notwithstanding the din of communication and trade, the cities are, for this reason, the chief seats of productive originality in art, science and letters. Even languages and national characteristics, if the people really care about them, can be, and preserved in spite of political absorption and the assimilating power of communication.
