CHAPTER VI 



THE CONQUEST OF THE SUPRA-WORLD 



THE human race has evolved on a small planet in 

 the solar system in the course of several million 

 years of organic life. Its destiny is to combine 

 with other sentient beings to govern the solar 

 system, the solar cluster, and finally the new galaxy 

 now being evolved. 



In the course of his triumphant career, man has 

 succeeded in extending his personality far beyond 

 the limits of his body. If by " personality " in the 

 wider sense we understand all material things con- 

 trolled by the individual, then we must include 

 his clothes, his property, and his whole sphere of 

 influence under that term. Individuals vary enor- 

 mously in the extent of this wider "personality," 

 much more widely than they do hi their physical 

 organisation. But every community has its " per- 

 sonality " also. 



It controls the " personalities " of its individuals 

 to the same extent as it controls their minds at 

 least on the average, and in the long run. The 

 community is an individual of a higher order, 

 with a consciousness distributed over the aggre- 



