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collapse, because the raw, restrictive, conpractised as part of the regular procedure tractive pull of the family proved, again and of the Inquisition, as well as the healthagain, too much for the intellectual loyalty damaging mortifications and the psychowhich the great official, the mandarin, left somatic morbidities resulting from presistent for the civilisation that he served and exmeditation on vengeful and tormenting ideas. pressed. Further, we must remember, as Dr. And whatever may be the ill-results of such Linton the anthropologist has pointed out, methods on the individual and on his sothat where as the Chinese family pattern was ciety, we know that what the world requires one that in itself was large and elaborate, today is a positive method, that is the power embracing often hundreds of persons and to create a psychophysical type which can so might have been thought of as a step find in the service of the community, and of toward that loyalty which would embrace humanity at large and with their fellow all civilised men the family pattern of servants that balanced euphoria and humorourselves western man is so rudimenous peace of mind which the members of tary our power of growing 'wild' loyalty a family that is rightly functioning, do find is itself so low, that our rude and crude with one another. Without this there can be family pattern can only be matched by some no future for a civilisation such as ours. It Eskimo tribes, and by that of the anthropoid will otherwise oscillate between anarchy and apes. No wonder our families themselves are despotism until it exhausts all resilience, always fissuring and the children of such all the will-to-consent and it disintegrates 'unions' are so often in need of psychiatric deserted by its constituents. The three great aid and assistance to help them endure their insect civilisations have been able to go parents and their sibs. forward precisely because, parallel with their increasing power over their environment, they have made equal advances in power over themselves. Beside building up a city, that utterly transcended in plan and purpose the rude husk-home which was all that the family required or could assemble, they

Naturally, therefore, this problem, 'Must the family man, because of his rudimentary natural loyalty always be a danger to full social cohesion?' has been in the minds of all the great inventors of successful social patterns. They all tried to restrict the family tie (by the men having their clubs, lodges, simultaneously built up the corresponding cells or fraternities to which neither women nor children are admitted) and later, with the rise of specific celebacy, by the elite being made to deny and abandon the home completely. Denial, however, is not enough. Indeed it seems all too likely that such repression as is required to sustain complete inhibition of psycho-physical release causes or provokes unconscious resentments which may result in such shocking cruelties as were

psychophysical types needed to key-in with, inform and manipulate, control and aim this new economic structure, a structure so manifold that it needed these living switches and gears to bring it into play. Further, we now know from von Frisch's work, that with the bees (and probably with the ants and termites, for in many respects they are ahead of the bees) 'instinct' is not blind, for it does not prevent reason and argument. Instinct,

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