...says on this point : " The central fact with which we are confronted in our progressive societies is, that the interests of the social organism and those...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." [P. 78.] Therefore, according to this book, human progress is not the result of following an enlightened...

...life, he says, is the method of nature, and the method of nature must furnish the dictate of reason. " The interests of the social organism, and those of...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." It is natural and rational that the hand of every man should be against his neighbor ; yet coherent...

...social organism subject to quite other conditions and possessed of an indefinitely longer life. . . . The central fact with which we are confronted in our...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." l Observe the extraordinary dilemma. Reason not only has no help for the further progress of Society,...

...great deal of force in the way in which the problem of social development is stated, and we mount. The central fact with which we are confronted in our...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." (" Social Evolution," p. 78)—" It is evident that there can never be for the individuals in these...

...as much without sanction in the highest civilization of the present day as at any past period. . . . The central fact with which we are confronted in our...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." f Mr. Kidd therefore abandons reason and Nature and seeks elsewhere for a sanction for progress. This...

...these greater interests that must be always paramount " (p. 78). He clinches this nail as follows : " The interests of the. social organism and those of...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable " (idem). This is the climax of error. The interests of individuals and of society are not antagonistic,...

...interest of the individual and those of the social organism to which he belongs are not identical. They are actually antagonistic, they can never be reconciled,...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable.' " What is to be done with this inherent and implacable conspiracy against property, and civilisation,...

...social organism subject to quite other conditions and possessed of an indefinitely longer life. . . . And in the development which is in progress it is...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable " (pp. 84, 85). Thus, Mr. Kidd sums up, "there can never be found any sanction in individual reason...

..." the interests of the social organism and those of the individuals comprising it at any particular time are actually antagonistic ; they can never be...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable " (Kidd, ibid., p. 85); and the further statement : — "As the interests of the social organism and...

..." The interests of the social organism and those of the individuals comprising it at any particular time are actually antagonistic ; they can never be...they are inherently and essentially irreconcilable." So we get the matter at last with all the breadth and absoluteness characteristic of the Aufklarung....