ii6 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



growth is consecutive, not instantaneous, it is impos- 

 sible for all parts of a growing body, or all members 

 of any social institution, to be precisely alike in rela- 

 tive location; or in their relative time of advent; or in 

 many other conditions incidental to growth. These 

 conditions inevitably determine what these parts are, 

 what they must do, and the things they may, or may 

 not do. The same laws govern the growth of the outer 

 world in which these individuals must live. That is, 

 nature-growth successively imposes on itself its own di- 

 rective discipline, giving to each individuality a sov- 

 ereignty of its own, and a different sovereignty to its 

 outer world. 



This sovereignty of the inner life enables the indi- 

 vidual to find a place in the outer world where it may 

 live and grow. On the other hand, the outer world 

 invites the peaceful penetration of its domains; but it 

 subjects all additions to its own resources to its own 

 sovereignty. Thus the administrative system of nature 

 is always expressed in dual form. Apparently its sov- 

 ereignty is always divided against itself ; the individual 

 for itself, and all the rest of the world for itself. 



But this dual selfishness and independence is ulti- 

 mately mutually serviceable and mutually directive. 

 In reality, it is cooperatively unified into one creative 

 process. 



As each component part of any individual, and each 

 component part of its outer world, exists under differ- 

 ent conditions, all of them necessarily grow in differ- 

 ent ways, bringing internal interests into perpetual 

 conflict with one another, and the individual, as a 

 whole, into conflict with the changing conditions in its 

 outer world. 



