274 THE STATUS OF MAN. 



causes of grouping of individuals, the study of evolution in 

 makind. At the same time, we may see a number of superior 

 individuals, men or women of genius, of special ability, who, 

 from a genetic point of view may represent varieties just as 

 the pug-nosed and the red-haired people. 



In such a nation, almost any group of individuals is repre- 

 sentative If the business of government and of law-making is 

 detailed to a number of people, chosen for their mental capac- 

 ity and ability for grasping problems, there is no danger what- 

 ever, that they will not further the interest of the whole people. 

 They are, collectively, not different from the people, their 

 interests are the common interests, their very mentality and 

 view of ideals of life are those of the whole nation By leaving 

 the government to a number of outstanding men and women, 

 those individuals will not probably be each typical, and they 

 will rather include all sorts of different varieties But they will 

 counterbalance each other's deviations. The only form of go- 

 vernment which would not be safe in such a nation would be 

 a dictatorship, where the interests of one, possibly aberrant 

 individual will not be identical with that of the whole people. 



Everybody likes to have a voice in his own destiny and in 

 that of his children. Everybody looks upon his children and 

 upon his grandchildren as upon people fundamentally like 

 oneself — identical: and everybody assumes that the same 

 likeness as between parents and children and between great- 

 grand-parents and great-grand-children exists between him- 

 self and the people around him. One wants to unite with his 

 likes, together to regulate the affairs of common concern, to 

 enact legislation, which will affect descendants as well as 

 neighbours. Or if one cannot find time and leisure, or does 

 not feel up to the requirements of actively participating in the 

 bu iness of government, one wants to detail one's part in the 

 ma ter, one's voice, one's vote, to somebody who is felt to 

 be essentiolly like oneself, to an equal, biologically speaking, 

 to a member of one's own species. 



The idea of having people of a different species arrange one's 



