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conscious factor in the struggle as soon as he told him that there was 

 such a struggle. As such a conscious factor he is certain to realize more 

 and more that he is able to push the evolutionary process on only as a 

 part of the social whole. It is the gregarious instinct in man that 

 makes him the lord of the brute and civilized man the lord of the 

 savage. So, while the biologist lessens the struggle for existence as a 

 recognized factor in evolution, man nullifies it in organized society for 

 those within the organization, and leaves it to work what havoc it will 

 outside. This is on the way from individualism to socialism, and that 

 is the way we are now going because of our new premises in religion 

 and science and politics. Man, the single man, is to be steadily more 

 and more, no doubt, but it is man in the collective whole that in this 

 century is to croon over him as, in Ibsen's " Peer Gynt," Solveig at last 

 croons over that poor wreck of self-realization gone mad. Peer Gynt 

 himself : 



I will cradle thee, I will watch thee; 



Sleep and dream thou, dear my boy. 



