HUMAN DESTINY AND EVOLUTION 



societal organism constituting a distinct bio-social 

 entity will come about. The capabilities that may be 

 expected from the fully integrated entity should be 

 enormously greater than those possessed by human 

 society at its present stage. This increase of capabilities 

 (and this includes the degree of consciousness) should 

 be many times greater than the distance that now sep- 

 arates the most primitive cultures known, from mod- 

 ern industrial society. At our present evolutionary 

 stage, the integration process of the human species has 

 barely gotten started. Consequently the human societal 

 organism, to the extent to which it can be considered 

 to exist at this time, is extremely primitive and just 

 appearing to become recognizable as an entity. As to 

 the relationship of the individual human being to the 

 societal organism, valid conclusions can probably not 

 be drawn at this stage of development. However it 

 does appear quite certain that further human progress 

 will not result merely from the biological improvement 

 of individual man. It will be the integration process, 

 the formation of the new organic entity that will deter- 

 mine the future development of man. 



The further evolution of human society would be 

 greatly affected by the development of a reproductive 

 system operating on a societaL level. The development 

 of such a feature is to be expected on theoretical 

 grounds. As has been discussed, it has already taken 

 place in the incipient societal organisms of various 



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