160 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



climate, but the most intelligent, that is, those in 

 which industry hygienically applied favours the 

 life of man. There are temperate zones, enjoyed 

 by nations like Spain and Turkey, in which the 

 climate seems ordained to form the life of man 

 under better conditions than in cold and moist 

 climates, as is the case in Sweden and Norway ; 

 and yet quite the contrary is the case, since the 

 latter have less than half the mortality of the former. 

 Then, the struggle for existence is all the less applic- 

 able in the matter of climate since the proof is to 

 the contrary the worse the climate, the greater 

 the vitality. Nature affords us, thanks to intelli- 

 gence, every possible means of resisting inclemency ; 

 but, on the other hand, society does not give us the 

 means, resources or money, to protect ourselves 

 against their severities. Human beings killed by 

 misery, hunger, unhealthy conditions do not fall 

 victims to the struggle for life, but to social organ- 

 isation, which is more stupid than selfish. 



Economists are the chief culprits in this matter, 

 with their senseless application of the struggle for 

 life, because, being ignorant of the spirit of the 

 natural laws, they have taken capital as synonymous 

 with nourishment or feeding-grounds, and thus, 

 subject to a limited means, such as money, a struggle 

 of humanity, similar to that of the struggle for life 

 in Nature, is possible. 



