They will comprise the laborers, domestics, and clerks. The villeins of the manorial estates, of the great farms, the mines, and the forests. Only they must not meddle with anything relating to social science. It must be confessed that Mr. Ghent's arguments are cunningly contrived and arrayed. They must be read to be appreciated.
All societies evolve naturally out of their predecessors.
In sociology, as in biology, there is no cell without a parent cell. The society of each generation develops a multitude of spontaneous and acquired variations, and out of these, by a blending process of natural and conscious selection, the succeeding society is evolved. The new order will differ in no important respects from the present, except in the completer development of its more salient features. The visitor from another planet who had known the old and should see the new would note but few changes. From magnate to baron, from workman to villein, from publicist to court agent and retainer, will be changes of state and function so slight as to elude all but the keenest eyes.