Philosophy of History An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics
Philosophy of History An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics
Alfred Henry Lloyd
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Witness the negative, the irrational element in environment, which Spencer calls the Unknowable and which can not but have the effect of separating man from himself or as the same thing from the conditions of his life. But to divide man, to make the living man and the material man, or the spiritual man, two separate creatures instead of one creature is at once to put the organism, whether individual or social, wholly out of the question. An organism lives the life of its environment. With condi...tions external in their nature it can have nothing to do; or, if it does relate itself to them, it can be seen only as Spencer sees it, namely, in terms of massiveness, continuity, localization, restraint of its members, and so on, and this is to say that it is not really seen at all. And, as with Spencer's, so with anybody's division of human nature. It puts a real organic character. I08 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. whether of individual or of society, wholly out of the question. The concept of the organism, like that of evolution to which it belongs, depends on the unity of all the phases of life, of the physical and the animate and the rational and the spiritual, and sociologists or political scientists of any kind, who would deny organic character to society or who would in any of the many ways qualify their admission of the term organism would do well, of course in the first place to discover if they really know what an individual organism as an organism is, but especially in the second place to determine what their particular divis- ion of human nature is and how far they are seriously willing to make it.
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