eople (with all this machinery around one) as cogs and
wheels in an economic machine.

Then it began to occur to me that it was because I had looked upon the
economic machine a little lazily, a little innocently that I had been
awed and terrific--and had been swept away with it into the Whirling
Unbelief.

Then I stood quietly and calmly for days, for weeks, for years before
it. I watched it Go Round.

I then discovered under close observation that what had looked to me
like an economic machine was not an economic machine at all.

The modern economic world has innumerable mechanical elements in it, but
it is not an economic machine.

It is a biological engine.

It is the biology in it that conceives, desires, and determines the
machinery in it.

The most important parts of the machine are not the very mechanical
parts. They are the very biological parts.

The economic machine is full of made-people, but it does not make very
much difference about the made-people. I find that as a plain, practical
matter of fact I do not need to watch the made-people so very much to
understand the world, or to get ready for what is happening to it.

In prospecting for a world, I watch the born people.

I watch especially the people who have been born twice.

As one watches the way the world is going round one finds that what is
really making it go round, is not its being an economic machine, but its
being a biological engine.

Industrial reform is a branch of biology.

The main fact of biology as regards a man is that he can be born.

The main fact of biology as regards society--that is, the main fact of
social biology--is that a man can be born twice.

As long as a man is born to go with a father and a mother it is well
enough to have been born once, but the moment a man deals with other
people or with the world, he has to be born again.

This is the main fact about the biological engine we call the world.

The main fact about the Engine is the biology in it.

Every other fact for a man has to be worked out from this--that is: out
of being born once if one wants to belong merely to a father and mother,
and out of being born twice if one wants to belong to a world.

A man does not need to enter again into his mother's womb and come out a
child. He enters into the World's Womb and comes out a man.

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The world is being placed to-day before our eyes in the hands of the men
w