SUBMISSION TO LEADERSHIP 367 



V. The Constructive Usage of Intelligence in Social 



Growth 



The existence of a physical object, or a living or- 

 ganism, is dependent on the compelling powers which 

 regulate the action of its constituent parts. In social 

 life, these powers are supplemented, or extended, by 

 the compulsion of intelligence. 



There are apparently three alternative methods of 

 using that compulsion constructively: (i) By mental 

 dominion, or the compulsion to constructive action of 

 the mentally weak and stupid by the mentally strong; 

 (2) By mental democracy, or the compulsion to con- 

 structive action by an equal degree of intelligence in 

 all the social constituents; and (3) By a combination 

 of the first two methods, or by the delegation of au- 

 thority. 



In any case, the underlying intellectual compulsion 

 that drives the individual man to purposeful action 

 is always essentially the same; fear of destruction, loss, 

 or injury; the desire to save himself* and the desire to 

 profit, to increase, or to grow. 



i. Mental Dominion. Of these three alternative 

 methods, the first one is definitely excluded as a per- 

 manent means of progress, because no class, or group, 

 or nation, can go on growing in intellectual power and 

 in dominion over others, and at the same time deprive 

 its own constituents of the intellectual instruments by 

 which that dominion is created and maintained. The 

 command of these constructive agencies must be gen- 

 eral, or diffused throughout the dominant group, else 

 no enduring system of social power can be created. 

 If this command is general, dominion within the group, 



