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a larger unity, and a larger individuality out of smaller 

 ones. Service that flows out of one individuality to 

 another we call benevolence, or altruism. When a con- 

 structive way is found, we call it the right way, or right- 

 ness, because it is creative and preservative to that ex- 

 tent. 



The increase of organization, or of mutual service, 

 mutual restraint, and mutual adaptation, is what we 

 call progress, or evolution. It is expressed, not only 

 in the growth of individualities, but, in a larger way, 

 by the increase of their fitness for mutual service; by 

 that rhythmic sequence of egoism and altruism, of give 

 and take, of life and death, of gain and partial loss, 

 which constitutes the metabolism of nature-life, and 

 which is the source of nature's accumulating profits in 

 constructive Tightness and creative unity. 



