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India, but it is injurious to the world. The tendency of the modern world is not to allow the theological doctrine to become formative of the social group; but to create a feeling of brotherhood irrespective of the membership of theophratry. The defeat of the theophratries is bound to take place in two ways. The Church; which is the instrument for the promotion of the feeling for the theophratry, will either be forsaken or be reformed. People will not join the Church, and the class of actions of men which the Church used to control is becoming less. Moreover, the tradition common to the world at large independent of the theophratries will be so great that the traditions of a particular church; religion; or theophratry will be but a small portion, which would be regarded as negligible in social relations.

The two processes which lead to the uniformity of civilization among peoples have been discussed. They form part of the integration of world society. Social integration is in fact doing its work at every stage of a social group. Integration is taking place in all organisms, whether biological or social. Herbert Spencer has noticed several peculiarities of social organisms. He says: –

Societies agree with individual organisms in four conspicuous peculiarities: –

1. That commencing as small aggregations, they insensibly augment in mass: some of them eventually reaching ten thousand times what they originally were.

2. That while at first so simple in structure as to be regarded as structureless, they assume in the course of their growth a continually increasing complexity of structure.