text:  Standing where we do and looking out as far as our intellectual vision can extend we pronounce it to be the basis of society; but if we added that as long as the world lasts it must continue to be the basis of society that there are no elements in man to furnish forth if circumstances favoured their development a quite different principle for the social organization we feel that we should be overstepping the modest bounds of truth and stating our proposition in terms far wider and more absolute than we were warranted