ABSTRACT
The acquisitions of culture came as no boon to the individual, because they were employed for the power and greatness of the organization, for the perfecting of the social body. The culture man can as little return to the state of nature as a man can transform himself back into a child. As long as culture advances headlong and by fits and starts, no true adaptation can take place in any one of the swiftly changing conditions. The logic of facts leads us to expect just the reverse: a second development must follow on the development already gained, in which man by means of the progress of culture has arrived at undreamed-of power, and this power will be made conducive to the welfare of the individual. Progress receives its strongest impulse as soon as nations formerly hostile come into reciprocal relationship.
