498 HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT 



IV. The Individual and the Race 



There is a larger freedom and a greater 

 responsibility than that which characterizes the 

 individual. What the individual cannot do 

 because of weakness, ignorance, self interest, 

 short life, society can accomplish with the 

 strength, wisdom, and interest of all, and 

 through long ages of time. There are many 

 grades of organization from the bacterium to 

 the vertebrate, from the germ cell to the man. 

 Society is the last and highest grade of organi- 

 zation and its freedom and responsibility are to 

 those of the individual very much as the free- 

 dom and responsibility of the developed man 

 are to those of the germ cell from which he 

 came. Out of the correlations, differentiations 

 and integrations of persons has grown this 

 higher type of organization which we call 

 society. 



1. The Conflict between the Freedom of the 

 Individual and the Good of Society. — The 

 freedom, power and responsibility of society 

 are founded upon limitations of individual free- 



