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conscious factor in the struggle as soon as he told him that there was 



such a struggle. As such a conscious factor he is certain to realize more 



and more that he is able to push the evolutionary process on only as a 



part of the social whole. It is the gregarious instinct in man that 



makes him the lord of the brute and civilized man the lord of the 



savage. So, while the biologist lessens the struggle for existence as a 



recognized factor in evolution;, man nullifies it in organized society for 



those within the organization, and leaves it to work what havoc it will 



outside. This is on the way from individualism to socialism, and that 



is the way we are now going because of our new premises in religion 



and science and politics. Man, the single man, is to be steadily more 



and more, no doubt, but it is man in the collective whole that in this 



century is to croon over him as, in Ibsen's " Peer Gynt," Solveig at last 



croons over that poor wreck of self-realization gone mad, Peer Gynt 



himself : 



I will cradle thee, I will watch thee; 

 Sleep and dream thou, dear my boy. 



