CHAPTER XIV 



CLASS FUNCTIONS AND VOLUNTARY SUB- 

 MISSION TO LEADERSHIP 



Class Differences a Necessary Condition to Social Cooperation 

 Social Metabolism and the Conveyance of Social Power Social 

 Cleavage and the Delimitation of Social Units Social Motives and 

 the Compulsion of Achievement The Constructive Usage of Intel- 

 ligence in Social Growth: Mental Dominion; Mental Democracy, 

 or Equality of Authority The Delegation of Functional Authority 

 and Voluntary Submission to Leadership. 



THE inhibitory mental factor in social evolution 

 which automatically tends to suppress great interna- 

 tional wars, is less potent to suppress minor, or internal, 

 conflicts. Here the divergence of interests is more 

 fluctuating, the relative difference in individual profits 

 greater, and apparently more easily accessible to cor- 

 rection. It is therefore easier to mobilize antagonistic 

 purposes for prospective gains; and the prospective 

 losses in the struggle for Tightness, being less appalling, 

 are not so deterrent to action. 



I. Class Differences a Necessary Condition to Social 



Cooperation 



Without the structural and functional differences 

 in human beings on which class distinctions are mainly 

 based, no social organization would be possible. For 

 cooperation is contingent on differences not likenesses. 

 Like the various tissues and organs which make up a 



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