Evolution exists not just on the biological level, but culturally and psychologically as well. Here's how it works.
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
Darwin shows here that social evolution is directed toward a familiar and long-desired outcome, extending not only the natural law of cooperation but also the Golden Rule from the individual level to the global level.
This fourth step leading toward a global consciousness takes in the rise of world empires, a world culture, world religions laying claim to being universal, and the concept of world history with “the consciousness of...the idea of mankind as a unity.” A few years after Wundt wrote about these stages, the League of Nations came into being, and then after the Second World War, the United Nations was formed.
Both Wundt and Jung see the same goal, the psychic unity of mankind, yet have different ways of getting there. For Wundt, it is an external, social process, while for Jung it is an internal, personal process. Describing two different parts to the same process, they show how we are both born with the awareness of our oneness, and we gradually move toward a consciousness of this through the stages of our personal and collective evolution.
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