ABSTRACT
If human society were a generated organism it would not require a government. Its limbs and organs would then have arisen by gradual segregation and distinction within a self-developing and self-reproducing body. So a seed possesses from the beginning a specific power of growth, in so far as circumstances provoke and permit it. All those eventual limbs and organs must then remain rooted in a single body and can live only by inclusion in its collective life. If ever one of them was maimed or hindered in its action, all the others would more or less remotely feel the shock, and if possible, by transfusion of their vital energy, would help to repair the damage. Thus all natural organisms, even if injured only in part, in some measure suffer and recover as units; notoriously they awake, move, fight, and die as units.
