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cooperating groups, or associations, of men. We may 

 not correctly use the term "Creative Evolution," for 

 there can be no creation without evolution, and no evo- 

 lution without creation. The ceaseless flow of creative 

 services is evolution, and evolution is serial creation. 



While nature's methods of creating are always the 

 same, the qualities of her products are always different, 

 and the extent of her creative resources are as unpre- 

 dictable today as they were yesterday and as they will 

 be tomorrow. The cooperative union of hydrogen and 

 oxygen to produce water creates a new substance with 

 new qualities and new potentialities for world service 

 in no wise comparable with those of its constituents. 

 This familiar process is no more or less mysterious than 

 the cooperative union of a much larger number of ele- 

 ments to form protoplasm, with its newly created prop- 

 erties called "vitality." 



As the chemistry of cooperating elements creates 

 new chemical bodies, with new properties and new 

 powers for world service, so the super-chemistry of co- 

 operating lives creates new organisms with their new 

 powers for world service. These new properties of 

 the "living body," or of a group of men called a "team," 

 a college, a city, or a state, constitute what is called the 

 "soul" or "spirit," or attribute of that group. All 

 these "new things" are unlike any of their constituent 

 parts, hence they can be measured, or compared, only 

 in terms of themselves. 



The only attribute common to all of them is their 

 inherent power to grow, or to create more new things. 

 The only measure of their powers is the extent of the 

 cooperative services that created them, and the creative 

 value of the new servants they in turn create. 



