274 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



them, brought the old militant, selfish doctrines of 

 church and state into conflict with the new doctrines of 

 democracy; not merely with the democracy of man- 

 kind, but with nature's kind; with that universal 

 equality of right to be served, the obligation to serve, 

 and the equitable sharing of profits and losses, upon 

 which all constructive, or creative action depends. 



This conflict cannot be confined to any time, or 

 place, or people; it cuts across every phase of life, high 

 and low, young and old, domestic and foreign. It is, in 

 fact, not merely a question of national, or racial, or 

 class growth, it is a basic question of organic evolution, 

 or the right constructive usage of all nature's resources. 



There was, and there is today, little or no conscious- 

 ness of the real social significance of evolution among 

 the most cultured peoples, or even among scientists 

 themselves, to say nothing of the outspoken political 

 and theological champions of the old regime. Too 

 late for the rack and the stake, evolution was tolerated 

 with a grimace and a joke, and became an impalpable 

 atmosphere and an agency of intellectual compulsion. 

 The monkey saved it from academic oblivion. All un- 

 consciously, the basic idea in evolution took root in the 

 popular mind, and through the agency of science and 

 the press penetrated all social and mental strata, in 

 countless subtle disguises; widening the general per- 

 spective, clarifying social vision, undermining ancient 

 shams and privileges, weakening the old bonds of au- 

 thority, and equalizing the power of individual men 

 for good and evil. 







Dominion and equality, over lordship and democ- 

 racy, are irreconcilable ideals. In a universal egoistic 



