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the resulting demiurgic stress that rival systems of society will be 

 unconsciously pitted against each other; that nations, and peoples, 

 and great types of civilization will meet, and clash, and have their 

 principles tested. And it is respect of the controlling principle of 

 the conflict — the degree of efficiency of the subordination of the 

 present to the future — that Natural Selection will continue to dis- 

 criminate between the living and the dead as the progress of the 

 world continues. "'"> 



(1) Kidd. Principles of Weatem Civilization, London, 1902, p. 154. 



