THE ORGANIC ANALOGY RECONSIL DERED What is a Society? 5 QUESTION hast a society isto ee be rae of individuals, Cacrying fore ws ais ht ale that just 0 existence 2 the units of w ancy scetain arrangement of persons, hal i of the cts formi But without di The Organic Analogy Reconsidered 135 ole as distinguished fom the individuals of its herent mass broken into fragments ceases to be a thing roay, the stones, brick, aod wood, previously the thing called s house if connected in fixed ways ‘Thos we consistently regard society as an entity, bee though formed of discrete units, «certain conercenes in the a trognteof them isin for generations ents of ch tive men fore, we apply I only where some constancy in the dist hution of part has resulted from setled Iie But now, regarding a society as thing, what kind of thing net we cll? Ttsceme totally unlike every object with cme squat ts mit may poly have to ther cb jets, cannot be m on, but ean be discerned only by reason. If th entity; the que reece sear) etien Between a scity and any resemblance must be one due to parallelism of principle inthe a. Fergement of component There are two great clases of agregates with which gregnte may be compared the atrbute of «society, ona ny way lke those of «noting body? or are they in any way Te thowe ofa living body? or are they ently umlikethove of both? ‘The frat of these questions needs only to be asked tobe an the parts ate ali sas ‘question, otto he ths promptly answered, ito ‘MBmative. The reaton for asserting that the pe fmnong the parts of«sclety, are analogous tothe tions among the pars ofa living body, we heve now to consider136 EVOLUTION 1” cENERAL body, we ahAnalogy Re seared forme theyning as low Bux