CONTENTS 



HAPTER PAGES 



INTRODUCTION xiv 



The Household of Man The Philosophy of War and the Phi- 

 losophy of Peace The Purpose of a Righteous Peace Unor- 

 ganized Humanity- -The Grand Strategy of Evolution 



PART I. THE ETHICS AND MORALITY OF EVOLUTION 

 I. BASIC FACTORS IN CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION 21-39 



The Influence of the New Concept on Human Conduct The 

 Varied Aspects of Nature as a Source of Mental Confusion 

 Conflict and Tragedy, Competition and Destruction in Na- 

 ture Benevolence and Mutual Service as Directive or Discip- 

 linary Agents in Nature-Action The Continuity of the 

 Creative Process Evolution a Triumph of Constructive over 

 Destructive Agencies Cooperation and Conveyance, or Mu- 

 tual Service and Rightness, as Constructive Agencies in Evolu- 

 tion 



II. THE EVOLUTION OF INDIVIDUALITY 39-6i 



The Individual and its Environments The Creative Drift 

 The Increment of Mutual Service and Rightness in Evolution 

 The Growth Purpose in Nature-Action The Decrease of 

 Chance and the Increase of Compulsion Mutual Rights and 

 Mutual Obligations and the Categorical Imperative to Ex- 

 istence The Egoism and Altruism of Individuality The 

 Ethics and Morality of Nature-Action as a Guide to Individual 

 Conduct The Components of Individuality 



III. FITNESS AND ADAPTATION 62-81 



The Criterion of Fitness The Different Kinds of Fitness 

 Fitness by Design, and Fitness by Mutual Influences Tem- 

 porary and Permanent Fitness The Measure of Organic 

 Fitness The Measure of Social Fitness The Adaptation of 

 Vital Actions to Good and Evil The Evolution of Fitness and 

 Adaptation Adaptability in Nature-Action, as a Universal 

 Creative Tropism 



PART II. NATURE'S SYSTEM OF SELF-ADMINISTRATION 

 " AND SELF-CONTROL 



IV. LIFE: ITS ORIGIN, AGENCIES, HABITAT, AND 



GROWTH 85-113 



Preparation, Materials, and Forces The Cosmic Formula for 

 Life Life's Cosmic Sanctuary Life's Directive Discipline 

 Life's Freedom The Growth of Freedom The Instruments 

 of Freedom Growth: its Insistent Power; Organic Wealth, its 

 Source and its Uses; the Demands of Growth; Checks and Re- 

 leases to Growth; Development, or Simultaneous Increase in Vol- 



