Real Revolution — Page 74
74 interest: when individuals had opportunity enough to distinguish themselves by service to the common cause, slowly a spirit of rivalry was created and fostered, which sharpened as time went on. Some individuals proved to be more intelligent, physically stronger, with a higher corporate sense than others who showed themselves to be dull, obtuse, lazy, and selfijsh for instance. This kind of difference, as we know, lies inherent in individual capacities, which a coporate life does much to accentuate. The more advanced a culture, the more marked and glaring become these differences between individual capacities. In the more developed and higher forms of culture they, in many cases, become so obvious and so vast that certain members of the society begin to appear as if they belonged to altogether a superior class of beings. . When the social order set up by Adam had been in operation for a sufficiently long period, it must have automatically led to the emergence of these differences in acuter forms than had been the case before nd scme of the complications, too, must have started to appear which naturally spring up from accidental or incidental faults in the prevailing conditions, or in the personnel conducting the various institutions. The ordinary human beings must have started to marvel at the almost superhuman ability displayed by some of their compatri-