CHAPTER VI 



THE STUPENDOUS POSITION IN 

 THE WEST 



IN the vast problems with which the Western 

 mind is struggling in history there are thus, 

 it will be seen, two distinct but absolutely 

 opposing sides. For centuries past the attention 

 of the Western intellect has been concentrated 

 on the forces on one side only of this problem. 

 From time immemorial the dominant theme of the 

 West has been everywhere the same the activities 

 of the individual successful in the struggle for his 

 own interests. It is the science of these activi- 

 ties, the heredity of this individual, the laws of 

 this struggle, which constitute the principal sum 

 of Western knowledge and which have contributed 

 the main elements of Western history. The era 

 of evolution which this development represents is 

 the era of the integration of the individual. And 

 Darwin, and Darwin only, is the true exponent of 

 the natural laws of the phase in human history in 

 which it culminates. 



