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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. Alter et Idem--another yet the same--he would say.
    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."