SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 173 



individual sufferings will see the other side of the 

 movement. 



When a social organism is degenerating there is 

 considerable opposition to its complete disappearance, 

 and so as Houzeau has said (see the summary of 

 Book III.) it is to be expected that living and 

 superior civilizations drag behind them a trail of 

 debris from dead civilizations. 



