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    devices, each trying to harness the universe to its own peculiar pattern, each

    attempting to hoist the cosmos one step higher on a ladder of increasing

    complexity.  First there is the molecular replicator, the gene.  Then there is its

    successor, the meme.  And working hand in hand with each is the social

    beast.

    Hegel said the ultimate tragedy is not the struggle of an easily

    recognized good against a clearly loathsome evil.  Tragedy, he said, is the

    battle between two forces both of which are good...a battle in which only one

    can win.  Nature has woven that struggle into the superorganism.

    Superorganism, ideas and the pecking order--these are the primary

    forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good.  They are the holy

    trinity of The Lucifer Principle.

      Behind the writhing of evil is a competition between organizational

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