CHAPTER VI 



BENEVOLENCE AND DISCIPLINE 



The Constructive Metabolism of Egoism and Altruism The 

 Merging of Egoism and Altruism into Organization, and its Emer- 

 gence as the Augmented Altruism of Larger Individuals The Entail 

 System in Sexual Reproduction: Life's Entailed Estates; the En- 

 tailed Habitat; the Germ or Entailed Principal; Quick Assets or 

 the Endowments of Organic Capital to Embryonic Life; the Nu- 

 tritive Income and Forage Dividends of Youth Bisexual, Coopera- 

 tion as an Agency in Parental Benevolence: Sex, and Sexual Diver- 

 gence; Female Attributes; Male Attributes; the Functional Attri- 

 butes of Germ Cells; Bisexual Cooperation The Merging of Par- 

 ental Altruism into Nature Altruism and Social Altruism: the Lar- 

 ger Creative Values of Bisexual Divergence and Bisexual Coopera- 

 tion; the Unity and Cooperative Duality of Plant and Animai Life; 

 the Post-Sexual Period of Parental Life as an Agency in Social In- 

 heritance; Evolution as the Product of Altruistic Action; Intelli- 

 gence not an Essential Factor in Altruism Directive Discipline: 

 Cosmic Discipline; Directive Discipline of the Germ; the Cu- 

 mulative Discipline of Organized Endowments, Structural and Bio- 

 nomic; Education; the Compulsion of Intelligence; Discipline in 

 Civic Government, in Religion, and in Science Summary of 

 Chapters l-Vl. 



BACK of all evolutionary processes lies a univer- 

 sal compulsion to constructive action. It is manifest 

 in three definite ways: (i) by increasing restrictions; 

 (2) increasing guidance; (3) increasing freedom. 

 That is, nature always forbids the constructive usage 

 of some ways; inexorably compels the usage of others; 

 and leaves still others open to trial, subject, however, 

 to contingent gains and losses, or rewards and punish- 

 ments. Or. to express it in still another way: nature 



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