CONFORMITY WITH PLAN 339 



At the first glance, the men seem part and parcel of their 

 apparatus, so closely do their actions correspond with the 

 movement of the machines. If that were really so, then 

 the resemblance to an animal-community would be complete, 

 and we should only have to look around for those inhabitants 

 who, like the queens of ants and bees, see to the business of 

 reproduction, which is necessary to ensure the perpetuation 

 of the community. 



Here we see the fundamental difference between the animal- 

 community and the human. The human community has no 

 sexless individuals, dedicated exclusively to the affairs of the 

 community, and therefore grown to their tools like the workers 

 and soldiers of the ants. All human beings can free them- 

 selves from their apparatus, their clothes and their dwellings, 

 and still remain capable of exercising the functions of the in- 

 dividual life and of reproduction. It is only among human 

 beings that we can separate the community and the people. 



The community shows human beings as associates in 

 work ; the people shows them as founders of families, devoting 

 themselves to reproduction and the rearing of children. Each 

 human being has a twofold task assigned him, as member 

 of the people, and as worker for the community. The com- 

 munity requires that the people shall provide it with suitable 

 workers ; the people demands of the community that it shall 

 create for it suitable conditions of life. And thus both com- 

 plete themselves, though they are essentially different from 

 one another. 



Let us consider first of all those organs of the community, 

 the task of which is to bring to the individual beings the 

 fruits of the earth in a suitable condition. 



If it is to be fully exploited, the spatial extension of the 

 earth requires a spatial distribution of the individuals that 

 everyAvhere attack it. But the workers distributed in space 

 have needs greater than the products of their own work 



