SECTION VIII
RECAPITULATION
RECAPITULATING, then, the lessons of the Science of History founded on Biology, we find that neither literary movements nor political agitations, neither the acquisition of liberty nor expansion of territories—in fact, none of the various aspects of national life are absolutely dependent on the particular people concerned, all are the products and resultants of the mutual influences of all nations and national activities on one another; so that types of national character are moulded through constant interactions and intercourses of life and thought. In the second place, these
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