Spencer Heath Archive

Item 722

Pencil notes by Heath on 3X5 cards.

Sometime after 1936?

Original is in item 714.

PARASITISM TO SYMBIOSIS

Animals, and savage men and primitive groups are by necessity parasitic on nature and on each other as their numbers increase. Social organization, with its creative metabolism of /measured/ exchange introduces a generalized symbiosis. But government has been partly, and at last wholly parasitic.