The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
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