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Jerry of the Islands

CHAPTER XV
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As for the rest, he lived in his intellect, ruling his people, seeking out data from which to induce laws that would make his people stronger and rivet his people's clinch upon life.
But he realized clearly the difference between that abstract thing, the tribe, and that most concrete of things, the individual.

The tribe persisted.

Its members passed.

The tribe was a memory of the history and habits of all previous members, which the living members carried on until they passed and became history and memory in the intangible sum that was the tribe.

He, as a member, soon or late, and late was very near, must pass.


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