180 ADAPTATION AND PROGRESS 
the favorite and detested types of character.’’! The qualities 
that go to make up the superior power of Englishmen, he holds, 
are these: (1) as a whole, greater command over the powers of 
nature, viewed not only externally by results, but internally by 
ability to do; (2) greater knowledge of how to use these forces of 
nature, as for example, in the interest of the health and comfort 
of the present body and mind. He quotes with approval Spen- 
cer’s phrase that ‘‘ progress is an increase of adaptation of man 
to his environment, that is, of his internal powers and wishes to 
his external lot and life.” ? 
The progress of man, he holds, requires the co-operation of men 
for its development. If this cannot be secured, the group perishes. 
A second principle is that ‘the co-operation . . . depends on a 
felt union of heart and spirit; and this is only felt when there is a 
great degree of real likeness in mind and feeling, however that 
likeness may have been attained.” 3 
Bagehot grants a high place to religion in that it gives a con- 
fidence in the universe, but especially to those religions that have 
the most obvious effect in strengthening the races which believed 
them, and in making those races the winning races; but no one 
quality receives the meed of praise granted to animated modera- 
tions 
Bagehot’s Physics and Politics has been one of the most widely 
read and quoted books in sociology and has exerted a profound 
and lasting influence. In it we find the author bringing out the 
four ideas we are presenting in this work, passive and active 
material adaptation and passive and active spiritual (or social) 
adaptation, granting to the last a far greater function in social 
evolution than most whose writings we have considered. 
1 Physics and Politics, p. 206. 3 [bid., pp. 212, 213. 
2 Ibid., p. 209. 4 Ibid., p. 220. 
