Very apt for the contagion of such enthusiasm, Lord Dymchurch showed in his smile that he was listening with pleasure; yet he did not wholly yield himself to the speaker's influence.
"One objection occurs to me," he remarked, averting his eyes for a moment.

"The organic body is a thing finished and perfect.

Granted that evolution goes on in the same way to form the body politic, the process, evidently, is far from complete--as you began by admitting.
Won't the result depend on the nature and tendency of each being that goes to make up the whole?
And, if that be so, isn't it the business of the individual to assert his individuality, so as to make the State that he's going to belong to the kind of State he would wish it to be?
I express myself very awkwardly--" "Not at all, not at all! In that sense, individualism is no doubt part of the evolutionary scheme; I quite agree with you.

What I object to is the idea, conveyed in Spencer's title, that the man as a man can have interests or rights opposed to those of the State as a State.

Your thorough individualist seems to me to lose sight of the fact that, but for the existing degree of human association, he simply wouldn't be here at all.