402 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



Against this growing menace to freedom of action, 

 and in order to meet the larger demands for service 

 incident to a growing population and a narrowing 

 world, man must minister to himself by building his 

 offensive and defensive armaments of intelligence and 

 human sympathy on an ever deeper, broader, and more 

 enduring scale. For it is not against one another that 

 men are insanely struggling for existence, but against 

 ignorance and superstition and a diseased, or unbal- 

 anced, social condition, due to the fact that social life 

 has rapidly outgrown its power to correct its self-cre- 

 ated ills. 



In this insane struggle for power, man is still led by 

 the same medicine-men, witch-doctors, and sorcerers of 

 old; the still older dog-ape chiefs of the pack, thinly 

 disguised as divinely appointed masters and heirs to 

 privilege ; who with malign whisperings of magic influ- 

 ences, with modern substitutes for tom-toms and blad- 

 der-rattles, still incite their witless brothers to fratri- 

 cidal frenzy, vainly hoping by sacrificial offerings to 

 tribal gods, by pageantry and a loud noise, to cure the 

 belly-ache of social indigestion, or the birth pangs of 

 social revolution, and still preserve their ancient privi- 

 leges. 



To save himself, to live and grow in his new en- 

 vironment, man must shed these outgrown garments of 

 the past, and as one new born in a new world, face the 

 future with the youthful hope and naked courage of one 

 who knows his task is set and his happiness assured in 

 its performance. He must reconstruct his social life 

 on a far deeper and broader cooperative purpose than 

 ever before; a purpose simply and frankly expressed in 

 words and deeds which every normal individual can 



