Super-Organic Evolution 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



THE ideas set forth in this book are only an experi- 

 ment, and they are only notes which I hoped to 

 have enough time and peace of mind to extend 

 with necessary amplitude. Time passes : the 

 pressing things of life do not decrease, and I long 

 to give to the world the thoughts which are my 

 most earnest convictions. I have always considered 

 the existence of a humanity eternally unhappy as 

 an incomprehensible thing, and I have rejected this 

 monstrous injustice from childhood. 



I am, and I shall always be, an imperturbable 

 optimist, and this has given rise to the trend my 

 spirit has taken for some time past. 



In Nature organic life obeys harmonious laws 

 which represent relations constantly realised in 

 definite and exact proportions ; humanity forms 



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