278 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



by stabilizing and conserving, in some architectural 

 form, the gains in constructive Tightness and coherent 

 power. In cultural evolution, the problem is to stab- 

 ilize and conserve the gains of constructive intelligence ; 

 that is, to reinforce the will to create and to preserve 

 social institutions. That is the function of education. 



But that education must be fundamentally right, 

 and consistent with itself. If the educators themselves 

 are not rightly educated, or if they are teachers of con- 

 flicting social ideals, fundamentally incompatible, the 

 more elaborate and extensive the education, the greater 

 the disaster when the social structures built upon these 

 ideals collapse. 



There is no hope in an education, however, technical 

 or elaborate, which does not stabilize a basic sense of 

 social righteousness; nor in one which serves more 

 deeply to entrench antagonistic wills in opposition on 

 fundamental principles, strengthening their respective 

 convictions, increasing their respective 'powers, and 

 perpetuating a conflict which becomes more and more 

 bitter and mutually destructive. 



Human society, large or small, national or inter- 

 national, is a living, growing organism with attributes 

 peculiar to itself. Its unity and vitality is expressed in 

 the cooperative actions of all its constituent parts. 



There is no physical power that can hold these 

 heterogeneous social structures together save the human 

 will, acting in self-preservation under the guidance and 

 compulsion of intelligence. That will to preserve 

 social life, that common compulsion to defend it and 

 contribute to it, can exist only in the conviction that 

 social life is a vital part of every individual life, and 

 that the whole architecture of society, physical and or- 



