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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER II
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Now, progress in organic development means the slow constitution of an organ--the brain--which shall direct the body.

So in society--an association of individuals, with slow constitution of a directing organ, called the Government.

The problem of civilisation is to establish government on scientific principles--to pick out the fit for rule--to distinguish between the Multitude and the Select, and at the same time to balance their working.

It is nonsense to talk about Equality.

Evolution is engaged in _cephalising_ the political aggregate--as it did the aggregate of cells in the animal organism.


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