COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



of things still continues. Now we shall find 

 something more than an instructive analogy in 

 the comparison of the primitive family group to 

 a unicellular organism, for such a comparison 

 will enable us to realize that in social and in 

 organic evolution the process of integration 

 has been substantially the same. The first well- 

 marked stage in coalescence is the formation 

 of the tribe or clan, which may be compared to 

 those lowly organisms made up by the union of 

 amoeba-like units with but little specialization 

 of structure or function. At this stage social 

 organization is but one step removed from that 

 absolute and ferocious anarchy which charac- 

 terizes the non-social life of brutes. " Mis- 

 trust, jealousy, secret ambushes, and implacable 

 vengeances" characterize the mutual relations 

 of these social " aggregates of the first order." 

 Hostility is the rule, and peace the exception. 

 The repulsive forces are stronger and the cohe- 

 sive forces weaker than at any subsequent period. 

 As we have seen above, the selfish impulses 

 which tend to maintain savage isolation are as 



States y p. 397 ; Phillipp on Jurisprudence , p. 207 ; Charles 

 Comte, Traite de Legislation, liv. iii. chap. 28 ; Grote, His- 

 tory of Greece, vol. iii. pp. 49-69 ; Gibbon (Paris edition), 

 vol. iii. p. 243 ; Vico, Scienxa Nuova, Opere, torn. iv. pp. 

 ^3> 35> 40; Aristotle, Eth. Nikom. viii. 14; Tacitus, 

 Ger mania, vii.; Csesar, Bell. Gall. vi. 22, 23. 



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