The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are usually not realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. Butat its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful . The philosophersaid thatis found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in the emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

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