CHAPTER XV 



THE NEW LEVIATHAN 



Quickening World-Life The Mosaic of World-Life, Functional 

 and Morphological The Evidences of Organized World-Life The 

 Ways and Means to a Purposeful World-Life The State as Sphere 

 of Cooperative Action The Evolution of Social Covenants The 

 Government of the State: the Autocratice State; the Demo- 

 cratic State Education as a Directive Agency to Social Egoism 

 The State as a System of Cooperative Functions: Social Reproduc- 

 tion; Social Metabolism; Social Betterments The Extension of 

 State Functions into International Functions. 



I. Quickening World Life 



MANKIND, together with the plant and animal col- 

 leagues that have been drawn into the circle of his in- 

 fluences, that thrive under his aegis and contribute to 

 his welfare, constitute a new thing in evolution, which 

 like a living organism is now assuming definite form 

 and action under our very eyes. 



The evolution of this New Leviathan out of the 

 sordid, commonplace realities of today, dulls our sen- 

 sibility to what is actually going on all about us. But 

 we are both eye witnesses and active participants in 

 the miraculous birth of this giant organism which 

 now embraces the earth with its encircling arms. But 

 yesterday, unconscious as a new born child, today it 

 has come into conscious life; and you and I, the very 

 atoms of its flesh and blood, and the instruments of 

 its spiritual power, may calmly sit in contemplation 

 of its inmost anatomy, and measure the ebb and flow 

 of its vital impulses. 



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