CHAPTER V 



NATURE'S DUAL ADMINISTRATIVE 

 SOVEREIGNTY 



The Dual Sovereignty of Individuality, or Internal and External 

 Autonomy The Internal Administration of Life The External 

 Administration of Life The Federal Administration of Life The 

 Insurance of Life. 



WE have seen that growth is a basic attribute of 

 nature, the expression of an inexhaustible latent power, 

 ever waiting a new birth of freedom in the perform- 

 ance of some specific service. It is manifest in the 

 automatic construction of nature's individualities; its 

 working capital is the accumulated profits of past serv- 

 ices dedicated to further constructive enterprises. 

 These processes are administrative in character, and 

 are used in common by the organic and inorganic 

 worlds of supply and demand; growth itself creating 

 the new means to fulfil the new demands. 



Nature's administrative system necessarily involves, 

 therefore, some way of insuring the integrity of her in- 

 dividualities, their conveyance through time and space, 

 the usage of them as endowments to larger ends, and 

 the attainment of those ends through restrictive and 

 directive discipline. 



I. The Dual Sovereignty of Individuality or Internal 

 and External Autonomy 



Growth depends primarily on what we call 

 "chance," or accidental combinations, which, after all, 



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