56 Social Environment 



to follow and support business. Everywhere 

 capitalism grows into vital organizations like 

 great super-beasts which have almost passed 

 beyond the control of the people concerned. 

 Back of industry stand the money-lending 

 classes who urge business enterprise to pile 

 up the social debt of capitalization; and the 

 pressure of the demand for dividends, blindly 

 following the line of least resistance, forces 

 society toward anarchy or war. But, after 

 all, the real foundation of the system is in 

 the thinking of the masses, in the outlook on 

 life which finds its excuse in the Darwinian 

 philosophy. 



With such a social parentage was evolved 

 the cosmic evolutionary philosophy in all its 

 varied applications. The key word of the phi- 

 losophy is struggle — the struggle of the indi- 

 vidual toward a secure leisure-class position, 

 and the struggle of the nation toward military 

 supremacy in the interests of its foreign trade 

 and investments. How old a religion is this 

 which materialistic science has evolved — the 

 worship of Mammon and Mars! Yet, though 

 the evolutionary philosophy is morally bank- 

 rupt, it has performed a great service in 

 compelling man to face the realities of his exist- 



