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leap, non-scientific as yet, to the conscious 

 Ego, which not only knows itself, but has 

 come to know itself as evolutionary. This 

 impress is what it stamps at present upon all 

 knowledge, making science along with itself 

 evolutionary. Such is not only the individual 

 consciousness of today but also the associated 

 or public consciousness. 



So we are to make, in our thinking at least, 

 the transition from Nature's Evolution to the 

 Ego's Evolution from an outer physical to 

 an inner conscious Evolution. And we may 

 add that each Ego, as a self-evolving individ- 

 ual within himself, is to associate with other 

 Egos, in that new kind of body, called the In- 

 stitution, which may at last include total hu- 

 manity. For the outlook now is that the race 

 must be institutionalized to secure the ulti- 

 mate freedom of the individual. To be sure, 

 the universal Institution of Man, be it politi- 

 cal, religious, social, or all combined or some- 

 thing else ? is at present a dream ; still the per- 

 sistent Evolution of human association into 

 ever-enlarging forms would seem to have some 

 such outlook (see preceding pp. 50-53). 



