AS^H 1 \Tln.N 



was invested and taken out in war; all Ise perished. 



Each nation tried oouh to be the stronger, and so 



made or tin- best weapons; by conscious and un- 



imitation rarh i. pe of <4iar- 



acter suitable to war and conquest." l Because of this 



HTort to become more military the art of war 



baa constant \y i 1 1 \ \ n vod. 



If tin stronger group, or natin, to take the term that 

 Walter Bagehot uses, is the <n- that invarial.ly Mirvivea, 

 in what does this sup* i n^th consist? M 



-rs undoubtedly contrihute to maintain the str- 

 <>f the group. Probably the most important advantage 

 in group struggle is unity and coherence. Galton had 



oh>erveo! vrars aijo that tin- tain'>t catt!.-, tlm-,. that 



seldom ran away, that k.-j.t the flock together, and those 

 i h-.l th.-ni homeward, would live longer than the 

 laimably wild members of the flock. 10 This process 

 of selection also operated to preserve the tamest groups 

 of primitive men. The tamest were those who were uni- 

 til by bonds of custom. "The first thing to ac<iui 

 may s M it. the legal fibre; a polity tir-t 



t sort of a polity is immaterial; a law first what 

 kiihl of a law is secondary; a person or set of persons 

 to pay defiM though who he is, or they are, by 



comparison scarcely signifies. >>fl What made one 

 primitive group st than another was a bond of 



union. Tin- kinl of bond mattered little, for the com- 

 pact group conquered the loosely organized group. In 

 these savage struggles of early peoples the slightest ad- 

 vantage must have counted for much an.l often turned 



Bagebot, W. PJhymni <* Mil fa. 2nd. L. p. 49. 



/ Hmoloficil Society* Tr***octio*> p. 1)7. 



>i Bagrhot, ; 50. 



