SOCIAL EVOLUTION 89 



the cosmopolitan society of the western world is, possibly, once more 

 approximating the Athenian model. 



And the goal is what ? If it be true, indeed, that through the ages 

 an increasing purpose runs, is it made manifest in something that we 

 may legitimately call progress ? For progress, rightly defined, is more 

 than evolution. It is race survival with individuation, or it is increas- 

 ing individual power, capacity and happiness not entailing race ex- 

 termination. Have we made sure of this? We hate to think ill of 

 ourselves. Yet the question recurs : Has the survival of the fit become, 

 at length, a survival of the best? 



