A good deal of intelligence has throughout helped towards the establishing of the social order.

If social organization is in part a natural result of the expansion of the population, it is partly also, in the best sense of the word, an artificial creation of the human mind, which has exerted itself to devise modes of grouping whereby men might be enabled to work together in larger and ever larger wholes.
Regarded, however, in the purely external way which a study of its mere structure involves, society appears as a machine--that is to say, appears as the work of intelligence indeed, but not as itself instinct with intelligence.

In what follows we shall set the social machine moving.

We shall then have a better chance of obtaining an inner view of the driving power.

We shall find that we have to abandon the notion that society is a machine.