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far as all such acts, or conduct, are constructively right 

 or wrong, and take some part in the destruction, or con- 

 struction of something else, they cannot be divorced 

 from the domain of ethics and morality. 



IX. The Components of Individuality 



As every constructive process necessarily requires 

 services of various kinds, rightly performed, the es- 

 sential factors at every stage of evolution are service 

 and Tightness, and the things or agents in which these 

 qualities are resident. Everything newly created, 

 every forward step in progress, or evolution, must 

 therefore be the product of service, and in turn must 

 represent some addition to nature's system of service- 

 able things. And these new services cannot be per- 

 formed without some new discovery, or invention, or 

 achievement, in doing things rightly. The greater the 

 creative progress, the larger and more intricate in 

 structure things become, -so the more varied and sup- 

 plementary are the services required, the greater the 

 number of things that must be rightly done, and the 

 more surely and persistently they must be executed. 



Everything in nature, therefore, every molecule, 

 star, animal, or social group, is the product of various 

 services to that extent rightly performed. And each 

 one of these things is itself an instrument to further 

 service, a promise of new things to be created by them, 

 and by their products. 



Thus the services and Tightness involved in the cre- 

 ation of any particular thing always present a more 

 or less pyramidal series, the more general, elemental, 

 and enduring phases of the creative process at the be- 



