EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



continuation of the integration process. That much is 

 quite evident. What is not so apparent, yet probably 

 more significant, — is that there are good reasons for 

 viewing the action of the societal organism upon the 

 ambient as arising out of the need of the organism to 

 preserve and enhance its orderliness in a relatively dis- 

 orderly environment. These reasons will now be dis- 

 cussed. 



THE HUMAN SOCIETAL ORGANISM INCREASES THE 

 ORDERLINESS (eXTROPY) OF ITS IMMEDIATE 



SURROUNDINGS 



If one considers the extropy level of civilized human 

 society and compares it with the extropy level of a non- 

 organized collection of individual human beings, then 

 there can be no doubt that the civilized society consti- 

 tutes the more highly organized system. This means 

 that the process of social integration involves a sub- 

 stantial increase in the extropy of the matter involved. 

 The process is consequently consistent in direction 

 with prior evolutionary development. Together with 

 the increase of the organizational level of the biological 

 sub-units, another highly significant development takes 

 place, as the societal organisms begin to evolve. 

 Namely, the biological material endeavors to affect the 

 immediate surroundings in such a fashion as constitutes 

 a decided raising of the organization of this surround- 

 ing material. By comparison, other higher animals 



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