94 EVOLUTION, SOCIAL, AND ORGANIC 



moves on, a something which we sometimes 

 call the spirit of the age. Society grows rest- 

 less and instinctively anticipates a coming 

 change. A new class rises into prominence 

 and begins to realize its strength and develop 

 its intelligence. 



The ruling class still proclaims its will, but 

 cannot always execute it. Colorado, Idaho, 

 and Haywood are proof of that. The mental 

 development of this new class has reached the 

 point where it has become an intellectual fac- 

 tor in the national life. Its voice is listened to 

 by publishers of books. It establishes its own 

 press. It publishes a literature of its own. It 

 creates its own platform. It reaches into the 

 future and demands control of its own destiny. 



And now see how all this is reflected in the 

 scientific world. It is no longer true that spe- 

 cies require thousands of years for the sim- 

 plest change. We are now informed that 

 change; takes place by sudden leaps. At one 

 single step a new species appears and begins 

 its existence. There is therefore, no longer 

 anything in biological science to contradict 

 the Socialist position that a new society may 

 be born of a sudden revolution. 



Mutation, the savants tell us, runs in peri- 

 ods, alternating with periods of apparent sta- 

 bility. Then if we are not supported we are 



