Let the pluralists accept this principle and they will no longer tell us that they are torn by a divided allegiance. Let them carry their pragmatism a step further and they will see that it is only by actual living that we can understand an undivided allegiance. James tells us that “Reality falls in passing into conceptual analysis; it mounts in living its own undivided life—it buds and bourgeons, changes and creates.” This is the way we must understand an undivided allegiance. I live forever the undivided life. As an individual I am the undivided one, as the group-I, I am again the undivided one, as the state-I, I am the undivided one—I am always and forever the undivided one, mounting from height to height, always mounting, always the whole of me mounting. ----- Footnote 133: See p. 39, note. Footnote 134: Mr. Laski, I think. Footnote 135: It does not matter in the terms of which branch of study you express it—philosophy, sociology, or political science—it is always the same problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XXXIII INCREASING RECOGNITION OF THE OCCUPATIONAL GROUP -------------- FROM the confessedly embryonic stage of thinking in which the movement for group organization still is, two principal questions have emerged: (1) shall the groups form a pluralistic or a unifying state, (2) shall the economic group be the sole basis of representation? The first question I have tried to answer, the second offers greater difficulties with our present amount of experience. Men often discuss the occupational vs. the neighborhood group on the pivotal question—which of these is nearest a man? Benoist’s plea for the occupational group was that politics must represent _la vie_. But, agreed as to that, we still question whether the occupational group is the most complete embodiment of _la vie_.