166 EVOLUTION, SOCIAL AND ORGANIC 



little finger, is an ideological phantasm, whicK 

 has no connection with the solid earth. The 

 flowery exhortations of Emerson, to live a 

 noble life in ignoble surroundings, is an invi- 

 tation to attempt what is, for the mass, im- 

 possible. Any philosophy which proposes to 

 save the individual without transforming his 

 social environment stands condemned by mod- 

 ern science. 



If, with a society more highly organized 

 than any known to history, we still have anar- 

 chy in the production and distribution of our 

 wealth, the remedy is, not less social organi- 

 zation, but more. If with all our dental science 

 toothache still exists, the cure is not fewer 

 dentists, but more dentistry. The need of to- 

 day is not less society, but more social organi- 

 zation. There is no hope in going back to the 

 small production of sixty years ago as Hearst 

 and Bryan desire. Increasing the number of 

 bandits in any society is not the concern of 

 their victims. The golden age of labor is not 

 in the past but in the future. The labor prob- 

 lem cannot be solved by going back to the 

 scramble of the hog-pen or the methods of 

 the jungle. There is no succour in flying at 

 each other's throats in the name of business, 



Freedom cannot live in a society rent by 

 class wars. Her conquests are only possible 



