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IN the last few years science has thrown her searchlight upon social physics, making amazing discoveries. She shows that there are laws underlying social physics as immutable as those she has discovered in material physics. This fact compels the assumption that the evolution of social bodies follows the pattern of all organisms in an increasing specialization of parts with a reciprocal unification of structure. This means also that a society in its evolution becomes a social organism. The facts disclosed by science lead to no other interpretation.
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MACKMURDO, A. The Social Organism. Nature 145, 187 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145187a0
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