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cell were left free to follow its own "interest" 

 and laissez-faire lord of all, v/hat would come 

 of the body physiological? The fact is that 

 the sovereign power of the body thinks for the 

 physiological organism, acts for it, and rules 

 the individual components with a rod of iron. 

 Even the blood corpuscles can't hold a public 

 meeting without being accused of "conges- 

 tion" — and the brain, like other despots 

 whom we have known, calls out at once for 

 the use of sharp steel against them." 



This is the rock upon which Spencerian In- 

 dividualism struck and went to pieces, inde- 

 pendently of those great forces, which I shall 

 point out, that made for its disintegration. 



These two contradictory positions are the 

 upper and nether millstones between which 

 the individualistic philosophy of Anarchism is 

 ground to powder. Socialists are not stupid 

 enough to argue that because society can get 

 along without a king therefore an orchestra 

 should have "no Head." We are also able to 

 distinguish between "the state" which Social- 

 ism will abolish, and the "administration of 

 industry" which it will establish. 



Every step forward in modern thought has 

 emphasized the importance of that factor 

 called "environment." The evolution philoso- 

 phy is an environment philosophy. Lamarck, 



