28 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



it has. The broader, more elaborate, more enduring, 

 each life is, the longer and more elaborate is the proc- 

 ess of giving by the parents, and of receiving by the 

 offspring; and the better all organs of both parents 

 and offspring cooperate for a wider service of the whole. 



Nor does "blind chance" rule in nature, for the 

 dice are loaded in favor of things in the "right" time 

 and place, as against those in the wrong time and 

 place; in favor of those things which act constructively 

 as against those which do not. In its broadest sense, 

 constructive processes, even if they are due primarily 

 to "chance," are cumulative in their results, and in- 

 creasingly directive in their disciplinary influences, be- 

 cause of the better balance, or stability, of each new 

 constructive product; and because the larger unit tends 

 to control the smaller unit and to incorporate it into 

 its own system. 



Progressive union and stability, progressive cooper- 

 ation, organization, service and discipline are, there- 

 fore, inherent properties of life and matter. 



V. The Continuity of the Creative Process 



Thus mutual service is the great creative, disciplin- 

 ary, and saving force in nature. It tends to give com- 

 munity and harmony of action to her constituents, ex- 

 pressing itself in an evolution that inevitably leads to- 

 ward the fulfilment of their inherent possibilities. 



Creation then is the birth of new things through 

 the mutual services of pre-existing things. Its product 

 may be a new star, a chemical compound, an inanimate 

 machine, a living mechanism with the properties of 

 growth and renewal, or any one of the many kinds of 



