i&amp;lt;&amp;gt;2 THE SOCIAL ORGANISM. 



besides coming gradually to consist of better ingredients, 

 also grows more complex. An increase in the number of 

 the xmlike organs which a&amp;lt;l&amp;lt;l to the blood their waste mat 

 ters, and demand from it the different materials they sev 

 erally need, implies a. Mood more heterogeneous in compo 

 sition an (i priori conclusion which, according to J&amp;gt;r. 

 Williams, is inductively confirmed by examination of tho 

 blood throughout the various grades of the animal king 

 dom. Ami similarly, it is manifest that as fast as the 

 division of labour among the classes of a community, 

 becomes greater, there must be an increasing heteroge 

 neity in the currents of merchandise llowing throughout 

 that community. 



The circulating ma^s of nutritive materials in individual 

 organisms ami in social organisms, becoming alike better in 

 the quality of its ingredients and more heterogeneous in 

 composition, as the type of structure becomes higher; 

 eventually has added to it in both cases another element, 

 which is not itself nutritive, but facilitates the process of 

 nutrition. We refer, in the case of the individual organ 

 ism, to the blood-discs; and in the case of the social or 

 ganism, to money. This analogy has been observed by 

 Liebig, who in his Familiar Letters on Chemistry, 1 

 says : 



&quot;Silver and p&amp;gt;ld hr.ve to perform i:i the organization (if tl.e 

 State, the same function as tho blood corpr.-&amp;lt;rles in the human 

 organization. As the-e round disrs, without themselves taking an 

 immediate share in the nutritive proems arc- llio medium, tho 

 e-sentiol condition of the change of matter, of the production of 

 the heat, and of the force l&amp;gt;y which the temperature of tho body 

 is kept up and the motions of the Mood and all the juices aro de 

 termined, so has gold become the medium of all actuity in thelifo 

 of the State. 1 



And blood-corpuscles being like money in their func 

 tion s, and in the fact that they are not consumed in nutri- 



