INTELLIGENCE, POWER, 



plants and fellow man. In its phylogenetic recapitulation, 

 the mind of man has invested competition with his fellow 

 man as if it were an ancestral fight or flight. 



Even today wild man, the distant ancestor that came 

 over the protoplasmic bridge, lives within civilized man. 

 Around this wild man the matrix or thinking brain has 

 woven the web of religions, of laws, of customs, of educa- 

 tion, restraining and limiting man in the exercise of his 

 wild behavior. But civilized man is unable to sever himself 

 completely from the law of the jungle. Man has conquered 

 everything but himself. The only enemy of civilized man is 

 civilized man. 



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