4 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



ought to be the future ideal that Nature is the 

 inheritance of humanity. It is through not having 

 logically evolved this deduction that Herbert 

 Spencer has not solved the great social problem. 

 And the notion of property as it has been in 

 vogue for centuries is so rooted in the brain of 

 men, it has formed so many grades of associations 

 and systems of associations in the cerebral nucleus, 

 that the powerful mind of the great thinker, weary 

 with the superhuman effort of his intellectual life, 

 could not break with the old bonds. This shows 

 the enormous work which is necessary for other 

 minds of minor capacity than that of the great 

 English philosopher to break loose from the routine. 



When we think of this complex organism which 

 goes on developing in such a systematic and 

 laborious way to rise from protoplasm to man, 

 when we see the intelligence in this, and Spencer 

 shows us the correspondence which exists between 

 the formation of the human brain and this same 

 evolution, the mystery seems to vanish, and instead 

 of being a blind and capricious force, Nature 

 legitimately acquires its own conscience, and, in a 

 word, intelligence is Nature incarnate in man. 



We see that human super- organism has to 

 follow the same laws which presided over the 

 process of all organisation in its perfecting, and 



