Except for insignificant deviations the Newts present themselves as a single, huge, and homogeneous unity; they have not yet developed sharply differentiated races, languages, nations, states, faiths, classes, or casts; among them there are no masters and slaves, free and not free, rich and poor; no doubt differences exist among them which have been imposed by the division of labour, but in itself it is a uniform, compact, and so to speak consistent mass, in all its parts equally primitive, in a biological sense equally poorly equipped by nature, equally subjugated, and existing on an equally
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