46 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



that particular product, or individuality. On the other 

 hand, we must designate every other condition as the 

 "wrong" one for that particular purpose. Hence no 

 other general term, in spite of its misleading connota- 

 tions, so aptly expresses those conditions essential to 

 creative returns as Tightness. 



The profit, then, in evolution is Tightness, or the 

 finding of the right way to convey the right thing atj 

 the right time to the right place. The tangible archi- 

 tectural profit of this mutual service and Tightness is 

 the thing thereby created. The universe is, therefore, 

 an organism only in so far as there are in it righteous 

 conveyors of materials and power to creative ends. 

 Nature's potential creative power, its power to grow, is 

 infinite and insatiable; and growth proceeds in all its 

 individualities as fast as they can find the right vehicles 

 to supply their demands. 



There is a graded substratum, so to speak, of right- 

 ness and cooperative action which is cumulative, or 

 wherein the gains have been more permanent and abso- 

 lute; and a more superficial stratum which flickers like 

 a flaming atmosphere with the rise and fall of the newer 

 creative products, or with the success, or failure, of the 

 newer creative enterprises. 



It is the finding of more stable, balanced or endur- 

 ing constructive ways that lays the more permanent 

 foundations for new constructions, making further evo- 

 lution possible, and ultimately making that possibility 

 a reality. 



We may readily imagine the basic qualities of 

 nature to be different from what we believe them to 

 be and then in our minds construct a consistent sys- 



