CHAPTER IV 



LIFE: ITS ORIGIN, AGENCIES, HABITAT, 

 AND GROWTH 



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 Free- 

 dom Growth: Its Insistent Power; Organic Wealth, its Source 

 and its Uses; the Demands of Growth; Checks and Releases to 

 Growth; Development, or Simultaneous Increase in Volume, Di- 

 versity, and Mutual Service; Limitations to Growth; Growth by 

 Multiplication (dissociation) and by Combination (reunion or 

 association); Profitable, Cooperative Merges; Unprofitable Mer- 

 gers, Parasitism The Creative Cadence and the Formal Accents of 

 Organic Growth Stability of Individual Life Essential to Social 

 Life The Growth Rhythm: Individual Growth, Fragmentation, 

 Regeneration, Association. 



I. The Preparation for Life. Its Materials and Forces 



LIFE is not an act apart, nor is it the product of any 

 specific time, or place, or material. It is the offspring 

 of the physical world; a transient phase of creative 

 power in the universal whole. 



To make way for terrestrial life, nature labored on 

 a universal scale. Matter was the warp and energy 

 the woof of her growing fabrics; constellations were 

 the patterns. 



Elements joined in elemental forms, and with ele- 

 mental motions harried the fields of space, growing in 

 power. Mass grew in mass, and momentum in mo- 

 mentum; each drawing the other to itself in mutually 

 regulated rotations; sweeping the heavens on their en- 



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