260 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



Darwinian conception thus all progress rests ulti- 

 mately upon the mechanism of heredity in the 

 individual. 



It is for this reason that Darwinism in all its 

 phases down to the latest Mendelian development 

 is primarily concerned with inborn heredity. It is 

 from the study of the facts and laws governing the 

 transmission of qualities inborn in the individual 

 that modern Darwinians found their claims to have 

 important contributions to make to the science of 

 human society. In the writings and researches of 

 representatives like Galton and Bateson we are 

 accordingly always in the presence of the sustained 

 effort to exhibit the science of society as related to 

 and dependent on the study of the laws of inborn 

 inheritance in the individual. Human progress is 

 presented to us as the scheme of organizing and 

 controlling in the race the mechanism of individual 

 heredity. 



When with this feature of current Darwinian 

 teaching in mind we turn now to human society, 

 the first fact which holds attention is perceived to be 

 of great importance as soon as we grasp its applica- 

 tion. As society, like the individual, advances in 

 evolution the gains of progress are accumulated 

 i and are transmitted from generation to generation 

 by heredity. But here the parallel ceases. The 



