ABSTRACT
The prime instinct is that which makes for the continuation and reproduction of life. The nourishment of the individual— the satisfaction of hunger, economic production— is the condition of that continuation and reproduction of life. Hunger and love— the economic and the erotic impulses— are the two prime forces. A social system that perpetuates insecurity of livelihood is "unnatural"— more so than a primitive society or a rural economy in which some balance has been found between demand and what the environment has to offer—in the sense that it involves this permanent state of fear. The desire for acquisition and adverse possession, deprived of the militant vigour lent to it by fear and habits founded on centuries of fear, would undergo change and domestication. The democratic movement has challenged this entire division of human beings into social "orders" naturally enjoying privileged powers, pecuniary and political, to the exclusion and suppression, economic and psychological, of others.
