Spencer Heath Archive

Item 288

Penned writing in notebook in Originals envelope 287

September, 1936?

Nature evolves two cells, organic units, by a differentiation from the mass. This implies exclusion, antagonism — the part against the whole and therefore of the one organic unit against the other. Most of the reactions one to another are destructive, antagonistic. But yet it transpires that some of these relations are of mutual advantage — creative. These relations tend to become habitual and a new mode of existence comes into being which we call symbiosis. A new type and manner of life emerges. In a primitive way the units have become socialized. Another divine act of creation has taken place. It is called creative synthesis or emergent evolution.

From this creative association of two cells a society is formed. This is the prototype of all the higher forms in vegetable and animal life.

Just as two unit cells, by adopting a cooperative and mutual relationship to one another, lay the foundation pattern for all the higher organic forms, so does the mutually helpful relation entered into by two individuals lay the foundation for the development of societies and all social organization recapitulates the processes of the biologic prototypes.

In both cases the individual units, especially in the higher and more complex organisms, become modified by the associative environment of their fellows and so form themselves into specialized groups and structures called organs, — the various organs of the total organism.

 

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SOCIAL CHANGE

Do it for the sake of all???

Were the Hebrew bondsmen more virtuous than Egyptian taskmasters?

Hindu Dravidians more virtuous than high-caste Brahmans?

The ten tribes than their Babylonian captors?

The Carthaginians than their Roman exterminators?

The Romans than the Northern Barbarians who despoiled them?

The Protestants than their Catholic inquisitors?

The Puritan Roundheads than the Royal Cavaliers?

The slaves than the masters?

The proletariat than the bourgeoisie?

The wage workers and other producers than the politicians who disemploy them?