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into terms of human conduct. In this new covenant 

 with nature, made with man through the agency of his 

 larger experience and larger intelligence, therein again 

 is expressed the promise that nature will serve him, 

 guide him, and bless him with all her powers if he 

 will but believe in her, and serve her, and obey her. 

 That promise is made in the axiom that the right to 

 exist and the obligation to serve are one and insepa- 

 rable. It carries with it the categorical imperative to 

 create and grow in power through mutual service. For 

 nature has but one purpose in all growth; and but one 

 government of all, by all, for all. 



VI. Summary of Chapters I-VI 



All the currents of constructive nature-action are 

 subject to the same directive discipline. Whatever the 

 agents may be, stars or corpuscles, man or cell, physi- 

 cal, social, or spiritual forces, the cumulative compul- 

 sions and restrictions of time and space, mass and 

 quality, progressively limit their spheres of operation, 

 unify and stabilize their combinations, and guide them 

 in gradient sequence to creative action. 



Cooperation is manifest, both statically and dynam- 

 ically; the one in more stable structure, form, or sub- 

 stance; the other in change of form, in conveyance, and 

 exchange of properties. Exchange that is profitable, 

 or constructive, that stabilizes and preserves, is service- 

 able. The profits are in constructive Tightness. When 

 these profits are localized and cumulative, they are ex- 

 pressed in egoism, or in self-growth, or in the progres- 

 sive creation of some new individuality. 



Mutual service is organization. It thereby creates 



