Man and the Community. 203 



there is a union of botli, the highest masculine and 

 highest feminine characteristics being retained, 

 while the lower of both are discarded. 



The result is a nation, strong, fearless, self-sus- 

 taining, yet calm, temperate, stable, considerate 

 of others. 



In the internal life of the nation the change 

 which has taken place is analogous to that in the 

 nation as a whole. 



The general tendency has been away from the 

 stable, unchaijging, simple altruistic domestic life, 

 toward a highly complex, ever changing, egoistic 

 social life, where the struggle for existence in the 

 higher sense is at its fiercest. The struggle for 

 existence has passed from the species to the indi- 

 vidual. The life of the species is secured by the 

 conditions arising from the altruistic, stable com- 

 munity; the physical life of a sufficient number of 

 individuals to preserve the species is assured. The 

 struggle is now between the individuals comprised 

 in the community, for the higher prizes of human 

 existence. 



The struggle is not now so much one for mere 

 privilege to live as it is a struggle for prestige, for 

 wealth and power, and opportunity to develop the 

 higher faculties. 



In other words, the question is no longer one of 

 mere physical strength or adaptability, but one of 

 intellectual power. 



In the production of man physical evolution 



