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harmony with the whole current of modern 

 thought. This harmony is even manifested in 

 the fundamental question of the predominence 

 given to the vital exigencies of collective or 

 social solidarity over the dogmatic exaggera- 

 tions of individualism. If this latter marks, 

 at the end of the i8th century, a powerful 

 and fruitful awakening in consequence of 

 pathological manifestations of unbounded 

 competition it inevitably leads to the liber- 

 tarian explosions of anarchism which preaches 

 individual action and which completely forgets 

 human and social solidarity. 



We thus arrive at the last point of contact 

 and at the intimate union which exists bet ween 

 Darwinism and socialism. 



