832 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



with any previous century, the action will be greatly more 

 accelerated when the united and balanced biotic, cognitic, 

 cogitic, and spiritic energies of the majority of individuals 

 are com})ined to perfect society as an organism. 



Resulting from the above, and of highest importance for 

 the safety of every social organization, will be a curbing and 

 guiding of every one-man power and even of a few-men power. 

 In the past such bloody and unscrupulous despots as Jenghiz, 

 Caligula, Attila, Pope Innocent, the Charleses, Napoleon, and 

 Abdul Hamid have been able to ride to power, to hold it, and 

 to slaughter thousands or millions, in part through the absence 

 of a true popular representation, and in part by bribing and 

 playing one human tool against another, when these w^ere 

 equally unscrupulous characters with themselves, in part by 

 utilizing the competitive system of which they were one shame- 

 ful outcome. 



But equally will the individual with natural and with cul- 

 tivated talents be encouraged to proenviron, and to carry 

 out, new and progressive enterprises that will benefit society 

 as well as the individual. For a perfected Initiative and Refer- 

 endum can equally promote individual, civic, and state pros- 

 perity as it can promote international welfare. Here con- 

 servative reactionaries with vested interests will doubtless 

 endeavor to sidetrack and to ridicule the practicability of 

 such schemes. But a noble enthusiasm, a steady determina- 

 tion of purpose, and repression of all unworthy means to any 

 end that would lower the spiritic aspirations will steadily 

 ensure great forward movements of humanity. 



Emperors, kings, lords, and courtiers, who, as already empha- 

 sized, have been the producers, the fosterers, the perpetrators 

 of most of the quarrels, wars, and bloodshed of the world, 

 will be entirely unnecessary and superfluous functionaries. 

 For the wholly erroneous and silly notion that they possess 

 even ordinary wisdom, considering the advantages they have 

 been born into, has been so often and so fully demonstrated 

 to be false that humanity will firmly and gladly set them 

 aside as has brave Switzerland for the greater part of a mil- 



