"How can there possibly be antagonism between the individual and the aggregate in which he is involved?
What rights or interests can a man possibly have which are apart from the rights and interests of the body politic without which he could not exist?
One might just as well suppose one of the cells which make up an organic body asserting itself against the body as a whole." Lord Dymchurch reflected, playing, as he commonly did, with a seal upon his watch-guard.
"That's suggestive," he said.
Dyce might have gone on to say that the suggestion, with reference to this very book of Herbert Spencer's, came from a French sociologist he had been reading; but it did not seem to him worth while.
"You look upon the State as an organism," pursued Lord Dymchurch.

"A mere analogy, I suppose ?" "A scientific fact.

It's the final stage of evolution.

Just as cells combine to form the physiological unit, so do human beings combine to form the social-political unit the State.

Did it ever occur to you that the science of biology throws entirely new light on sociological questions?
The laws operating are precisely the same in one region as in the other.