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ganic systems of the body are for the living individual, 

 receivers, conveyors, containers, metabulators, and reg- 

 ulators of constructive supplies; sustaining and quick- 

 ening social life, the world over, by their mutually 

 serviceable action. 



5. The Orientation to a New World and the New 

 Mental Freedom. The world in which an animal lives 

 is limited to those things to which it is rightly oriented, 

 and to which, for that reason, it makes a profitable re- 

 sponse. To react unprofitably is to die. The profit is 

 in avoiding those things which are evil and in taking 

 possession of those which are good. In its ultimate 

 analysis, this vital response is a process of exploration 

 and experiment, conscious or unconscious, measurable 

 in the power used for conveyance in exploration, and 

 in the constructive Tightness of the response, mental or 

 physical, to the good and evil discovered. 



So it is with men. We have witnessed the enormous 

 increment of man's physical power and constructive 

 Tightness in the nineteenth century, and how his world, 

 and his freedom of action in it, was enlarged with every 

 increment in his usable power, and with every new in- 

 vention of physical instruments for better exploration 

 and discovery, and for the better measurement of what 

 was really going on in the world of action all about 

 him. 



If we try to picture the typical man of two hundred, 

 or ten thousand, or even fifty thousand years ago, and 

 compare him, merely as a human being, without his 

 cultural implements and social atmosphere, with the 

 man of today, we shall find little or no reason to 

 suspect that in naked physical and mental capacity he 

 would be the one to suffer from the comparison. But 



