In biology, the effects of ultra-socialization and ultra-reflexion, by which a fundamental and still active tendency of matter to arrange itself ever more closely and ever more consciously on itself, is beginning to make itself decidedly felt in the case of man.
Never on earth before has such a quantity of living matter reached so high a state of fermentation.
If (ceasing under the pressure of facts to confine the realm of biology to cellular groupings) we decide on the better course of regarding the psychogenic arrangements of individuals in social systems as properly ‘organic and natural’, then instead of the famous dead end of which so much is spoken, surely we must interpret the present-day structure and deportment of the human group in a very different way, as an extraordinary evolutionary leap.
A higher form of cerebration, no less—not elementary this time, but collective.
Since man and in man, simple evolution tends gradually to mutate into auto- (or self-) evolution.
How can we preserve and intensify the self-evolving mechanism in man, not only the power but, at a still deeper level, the very taste for arranging and ‘super-arranging’ the stuff of the world in and around him?