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its messengers, grow larger and clearer. By strength- 

 ening its servants of sensory response and bodily mo- 

 tion, life works its way to physical and spiritual free- 

 dom. 



"For Nature, crescent, does not grow alone 

 In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, 

 The inward service of the mind and soul 

 Grows wide withal." 



VII. The Instruments of Freedom 



Thus there is no freedom without service given 

 and service received. Freedom without the one or the 

 other is but another name for death. Freedom grows 

 only so far as the instruments of service grow in power 

 to serve, and only so far as they actually perform their 

 services. 



To the amoeba, the jelly-fish, or the worm, the 

 "world" is the franchise of an hour in a drop of water; 

 a niche in the rocks for a season; or a home in the sea 

 for a decade. To man, the "world" is the universal 

 whole of time and space, for their content are his to 

 explore and to utilize. And therein lies our measure 

 of freedom and attainment. For what we call the 

 higher animal is the one which lives in a larger world; 

 the one with more discriminating organic instruments 

 for the discovery of good and evil, instruments of 

 greater power and certainty in getting the good things 

 and avoiding the bad ones. These are the chief dif- 

 ferences between the jelly-fish and the worm, the worm 

 and the crab, the fish and the reptile, the monkey and 

 man, the herd and the clan, the state and the empire. 



