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the struggle between capital and labour the triumph 

 of the former will accomplish no satisfactory result. 

 The responsibility is not that of capital or 

 capitalists ; the evil lies in the social organisation. 

 Society lives in profound error as to property. 

 It has chosen the paltry medium of money instead 

 of the grand inheritance of Nature, which belongs 



to it by right, confirmed by the theory of evolution. 



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The reasons before set forth will excuse the 

 abruptness of these simple remarks, as I have not 

 the necessary time to arrange a methodical book, 

 rich in doctrine and facts. Being doubtful of 

 finding another occasion, I resign myself to 

 publishing them. One thing, however, consoles 

 me, and that is, that, if I am not mistaken, the 

 law of correspondence which rules the intelligence 

 will lead thousands of brains to see the same 

 connection which I have noted between the theory 

 of evolution and sociology, and this series of 

 correlations would be my final and strongest 

 confirmation. 



These notes are a programme of the association 

 of my ideas on sociology as derived from the theory 

 of evolution, and I hope to prove : 



That humanity should follow the same law of 

 evolution as that which is seen to extend from the 



