276 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



fense of his ideal of justice, and of what he believes to 

 be right. That testimonial is not an assurance. It is 

 a warning. 



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The social turmoil of today is in part the result of 

 the destruction of life and property, and the loss of 

 constructive momentum due to the war itself; but in 

 the main it is the expression of the very same causes 

 that brought on the war that is (i) The attainment 

 of a world-wide physical unity, expressing itself in 

 social vitality, in national and in class consciousness, and 

 in vigorous self-constructive purposes. (2) The uni- 

 versal struggle, individually and collectively, for the 

 possession of territory, of land and yet more land, with 

 all its sources of power, as a means of self-preservation 

 and growth. (3) The conscious command of vast 

 sources of power by organized social groups, consti- 

 tuting both a threat of mutual destruction, and an in- 

 vitation to mutual service. (4) The conflict of ideals 

 within these groups as to the right ways and means of 

 using their power. 



Reduced to its lowest terms, the problem in every 

 national, as well in every individual, life is how to get 

 power and how to use it. It is the problem of egoism 

 and altruism applied to cultural constructiveness or 

 cultural growth. 



All problems concerning the use of power, in nature 

 or in any phase of human life, are the same; they are 

 architectural problems; problems in self-construction, 

 or growth, old as life and nature itself, yet always ap- 

 pearing in new forms. They can never be permanently 

 solved as long as life and growth endure. The inev- 

 itable new conditions produced by growth, create new 



