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vation has summed up this fact in a proverb : 

 " The cask gives the wine it contains "; and 

 scientific observation finds its explanation in 

 the necessary biological relations which exist 

 between a given society and the individuals 

 which are born, struggle and survive in it. 



On the other side this statement constitutes 

 a peremptory argument in favour of socialism. 

 In freeing society of all the corruptions 

 with which an unbridled economic individual- 

 ism pollutes it, socialism will necessarily 

 correct the effects of natural and social 

 selection. In a society physically and morally 

 healthy the best adapted, those who will 

 consequently survive, will be healthy. 



In the struggle for existence, victory will 

 then belong to him who possesses the greatest 

 and most fruitful physical and moral energies. 

 The collectivist economic organisation, in 

 assuring to each the conditions of existence, 

 must necessarily ameliorate the human race 

 physically and morally. 



To that one may answer : let us admit that 

 socialism and Darwinian selection can be 

 reconciled, is it not evident that the survival 

 of the best adapted will form an aristocratic 

 individualist process which is contrary to the 

 socialist levelling ? 



I have already partly answered this objec- 

 tion in observing that socialism will assure to 

 all individuals and not only to some 

 privileged ones or to some heroes, as now 

 the freedom to assert and to develop their own 

 personality. Then indeed the effect of the 

 ggle for existence will be the survival of 



