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these theophratries, which, as history has shown, are a curse to Humanity.

It is impossible to find a perfectly integrated society. Most of the existing societies are lacking in something or another to attain the ideal. As the process of the formation of the larger community by the union of the smaller is always going on, no time is left for the completion of the process of integration of any community. The difficulties of integration have been multiplied by the strange irony of fate which has subjected the groups of people to various and conflicting integrating influences. For example, the political dominion of one race has been extended over another race entirely differing from the first in language, manners and civilization in general. People speaking the same language and having the same manners are divided into different states. Peoples dissimilar to each other in race, customs and manners are professing the same religions; and people who resemble each other a great deal do not profess the same religion. Various religions are being followed in one state.

Though it is impossible to find a perfectly integrated society, it is still possible to describe some of the characteristics of the perfectly integrated society.

In a community where the process of integration becomes completed, the various races contributing to the formation of the community must become thoroughly mixed in blood, in their civilization and manners. The old racial feeling will at that stage entirely disappear, and will be replaced by the feeling for the combined community. Even the old racial consciousness must disappear, otherwise that consciousness will become the cause of sympathies and antipathies.