40 BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN PROBLEMS 



general course in progress. I deem it unnecessary 

 to give further examples of what appear to me inapt 

 analogies. It is in many cases impossible to say 

 just where the comparison breaks sufficiently from 

 the truth to become illegitimate. If we believe the 

 simile drawn from organism and state to have a 

 measure of merit, we must guard against imperiling 

 its influence by overloading it, and we should keep 

 our minds open to the possibility that widening 

 intelligence is likely to compel the modification of 

 even the most alluring biological analogies we may 

 now cherish. 



