Now these Utopian statesmen who founded the World State put the problem of social organisation¹ in the following fashion:— To contrive² a revolutionary movement that shall absorb all existing governments and fuse them with itself, and that must be rapidly progressive and adaptable³, and yet coherent, persistent⁴, powerful, and efficient.

The problem of combining progress with political stability had never been accomplished⁵ in Utopia before that time, any more than it has been accomplished on earth. Just as on earth, Utopian history was a succession of powers rising and falling in an alternation of efficient conservative with unstable⁶ liberal States. Just as on earth, so in Utopia, the kinetic⁷ type of men had displayed a more or less unintentional antagonism⁸ to the poietic. The general life-history of a State had been the same on either planet. First, through poietic activities, the idea of a community has developed, and the State has shaped itself; poietic men have arisen first in this department of national life, and then that, and have given place to kinetic men of a high type — for it seems to be in their nature that poietic men should be mutually repulsive¹⁰, and not succeed and develop one another consecutively¹¹ — and a period of expansion and vigour¹² has set in. The general poietic activity has declined with the development of an efficient and settled social and political organisation; the statesman has given way to the politician who has incorporated the wisdom of the statesman with his own energy, the original genius in arts, letters, science, and every department of activity to the cultivated and scholarly man. The kinetic man of wide range, who has assimilated his poietic

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