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unless it be the clear vision, mathematically 

 exact (and that indeed by virtue of the 

 theories of evolution), of the final social 

 organism based on the collective ownership 

 of land and the means of production. 



That is what will result very clearly from 

 the examination of the three principal contra- 

 dictions which it has been thought could be 

 raised between socialism and scientific 

 evolution. 



Henceforth it is impossible not to see the 

 direct relation of Marxian socialism to 

 scientific evolution, when it is understood 

 that the former is only the logical and conse- 

 quential application of the theory of evolution 

 in the economic domain. 



