Cooperative System Amongst Lower Animals 797 



is growing taller on the average, is lengthening his years, is 

 curtailing or stamping out disease, and though still handi- 

 capped by many competitive ills, he is surely facing the prob- 

 lem of getting rid of them. 



The writer would conclude this chapter in words he has 

 already used, when recalling the efforts and accomplishments 

 of the evolutionary "fathers" of the by-gone century {71: 62): 

 "It is recognized that the one organism man possesses, dom- 

 inates, and will still more fully dominate the earth, so that 

 man's evolution is now the great and central problem. Man 

 now no longer sees with the eyes of the individual; he pene- 

 trates the past, the present, the future, with the compound 

 eyes of "Society as an Organism." Nationality counts now 

 for little, and will count for less in the future. World prob- 

 lems are before us, for man's exploitation of the world is be- 

 coming increasingly easy. . . . May we not regard it 

 then, as the crowning legacy of nineteenth century advance, 

 that Knowledge is now for all, that schools, colleges, and uni- 

 versities no longer exist to manufacture a select and privi- 

 leged cult, but to people the world with the highest types of 

 earnest thinking individuals, that, as today is the best day 

 in the world's history, so future days will be on ever higher 

 planes." 



