. The causes and course of organic evolution; . nce greatlyvaunted exhibitions of healthy competition. It has corneredand appropriated the soil, the coal, the iron, the cotton, thecorn, the wheat, the carcases, the eggs, the tobacco, the tim-ber, the steel, the sugar, the oil, the leather, the glass, andnearly every other commodity. Then it has in bitter practiceexclaimed: When I, the wheat beast of prey, the timberbeast of prey, the oil beast of prey desire, then, and only then,can you—^free people of these United States—get, at my price,the staff of life, the shingles to protect from cold, t
. The causes and course of organic evolution; . nce greatlyvaunted exhibitions of healthy competition. It has corneredand appropriated the soil, the coal, the iron, the cotton, thecorn, the wheat, the carcases, the eggs, the tobacco, the tim-ber, the steel, the sugar, the oil, the leather, the glass, andnearly every other commodity. Then it has in bitter practiceexclaimed: When I, the wheat beast of prey, the timberbeast of prey, the oil beast of prey desire, then, and only then,can you—^free people of these United States—get, at my price,the staff of life, the shingles to protect from cold, the cheeringlight and all other commodities that I alone permit the use of. From this school of Adversity, the great masses of mankind,after learning bitter lessons, are slowly but ever more surelygraduating, to teach and to enforce better and higher doc-trines, such as are dealt with in the next chapter, and whichcan alone come when education along the highest mental, moral,and spiritual lines shall have permeated the majority of CHAPTER XXVIII THE COOPERATIVE OR SOCIAL SYSTEM AMONGSTLOWER ANIMALS AND MAN Amongst the lower invertebrate classes the rudimentarycharacter of the nervous system is evidently correlated witha want, or a feeble indication, of cooperative effort. But themanner in which large masses of individuals that constitutea species, amongst the coelenterate, echinoderm, and wormseries, live together in complete tolerance, at least, would sug-gest that certain chemotactic and other energizing currents,of like value in each set of individuals, contribute to a certainneutrality of action in feeding and in other life these also the reproductive products are shed intothe water, and so the maternal or paternalacts are practicallynon-existent. But with advancing cumulation of a nervous system, adistinct regard and care for the eggs are first shown; next forthese till the period of hatching ensues; next for the eggs andthe callow hatched b
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