RELIGION ENSURES SOCIAL FITNESS 555 



the inherent tendency of Ufe to expand, the integration of society, 

 indispensable for regulating the conditions of the conflict, can 

 be ensured only by the religious organisation. We must beware 

 of considering only the biological aspects of social selection ; 

 social fitness is as necessary as organic fitness, and the impor- 

 tance of religion hes precisely in that its task is that of main- 

 taining social fitness. 



