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The trick is that Kraus describes a clearly delineated set of social groups: Germans, Austrians, Italians and French. Perhaps he's saying that if 'the form is the function', ultimately, the group is susceptible to natural forces and the ambitions other groups that were founded on a sound functional basis. Moreover, modern groups do not have the barriers of geography to separate like-mindedness.



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