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     The integration of the individual into his society
entails a fateful anomaly. Each individual strives to be
himself, to assert himself, to exercise his abilities and to
fulfill his capacitiess; in other words, to distinguish
himself from the society to which he belongs and on which he
is dependent. The society, on the other hand, through the
agency of its members perceives itself threatened by the
individual as separate from it, and therefore seeks to
integrate him into itself; by the same token rejecting a
candidate for membership who is different; and such rejection
has been my experience.

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Copyright 2005, Ernst Jochen Meyer
