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ence. As a matter of fact, the modern world 

 in its unsocial aspects is best understood when 

 viewed in the light of the evolutionary struggle. 

 And it is essential that the world be under- 

 stood in all its brutality in order that the 

 highest manifestation of life — man's moral 

 idealism — may subject the natural order and 

 at length guide it out of the path of bestial 

 conflict it is now treading. 



