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The growth of freedom ever awaits the growth of 

 service. 



VIII. Growth 



1. Its Insistent Power. Self-enlargement, as we 

 have seen, is a universal property of matter. It is 

 primarily dependent on the attributes of the agents 

 whose cooperative union produces individuality and 

 growth, a basic fact which lies beyond explanation. 

 But growth is most commonly associated with life. It 

 is indeed its most fundamental attribute, for all living 

 things, such as protoplasm, cells, animals, plants and 

 human society, ever tend to increase in volume by the 

 capture of more constituents, whenever and wherever 

 they come into appropriate contact with them. 



This lurking, ever insistent power of growth re- 

 sides in every living thing, and in all its constituent 

 parts. It is ever straining against the bonds which 

 temporarily hold it in check; ever producing the over- 

 flowing abundance of life's machinery; ever creating 

 and recreating the infinite number and endless variety 

 of plants and animals ; pouring out with lavish hands 

 the apparently useless wealth, the ornament, the beauty, 

 and the luxuries of life. 



2. Organic Wealth. Its Source and Its Uses. It is 

 this primeval bounty and savage waste which is so 

 confusing to a narrow, utilitarian philosophy; which 

 leads one to wonder what it is for; to envy the wealth 

 bestowed on others; to look with suspicion on every 

 structure not frankly created for some obvious specific 

 purpose; or to assume too readily that structural wealth 

 was created by its owner for himself; or that it must 



