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THE author begins with an analogy that biological readers find difficult, namely, that between the State or nation and an organism. Its limitations concerning phases and duration of life, integration of component units, reproduction and external relations reduce its value. If, however, even a partial value be attached to the analogy, then the special parallel the author draws between the State and a low–grade organism becomes valuable, for there must be few who have not reflected that the greatest common measure of a large mass of humanity must be low; and Machiavelli has told us this for centuries in his own grim fashion.
The Behaviour of Nations
An Essay in the Conduct of National Organisms in the Nutritional Field. By Morley Roberts. Pp. xi + 180. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1941.) 12s. 6d. net.
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FLEURE, H. The Behaviour of Nations . Nature 148, 34 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148034a0
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