CHAPTER X 



THE ARCHITECTURE AND COHESIVE 

 POWER OF SOCIAL LIFE 



Limitations to the Growth of Man as an Individual, and the Phy- 

 sical Limitations to his Organic Instruments The Distinctive 

 Organs of Social Life, Manual, Visual, Focal, Auditory, a 

 Mental, and their cooperative Unification The Merging of Man's 

 Sense of Self with his Physical Instruments and Material Properties 

 The World-wide Unification, Physical, Organic, and Mental, of 

 the Nineteenth Century: the Completion of the Social Blastoderm; 

 the Increment of Power; the New Receptors and Perceptors; the 

 New Ways and Means of Conveyance; the Orientation to a New 

 World and the New Mental Freedom The Compulsion to Social 

 Cooperation The Consciousness of Social Possessions as the Compel- 

 ling Creative Power in Social Construction and Social Preservation 

 Summary of Chapters VII-X. 



I. Limitations to the Growth of Man as an Individ- 

 ual, and the Physical Limitations to His 

 Organic Instruments 



WE have seen that there are very definite limita- 

 tions to every system of growth, physical or organic. 

 When those limits are reached, further growth is pos- 

 sible only by the production of more individuals of 

 the same kind (either by repetition, de novo, or by di- 

 vision, or by self-reproduction) and by their coopera- 

 tive union to form new systems on a higher level. In 

 this respect, human beings are not different from celes- 

 tial bodies, or from atoms, molecules, cells, plants, or 

 animals. In man, these distinct but overlapping 



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