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ganic, national and international, is a personal posses- 

 sion of every one of its constituents. With this convic- 

 tion, which is broadened and stabilized with broaden- 

 ing intelligence, self and society are automatically 

 merged in one organism, and the compulsion of these 

 cultural possessions provides the motive to social self- 

 preservation and further social growth. 



Summary to Chapters VII, X 



We may summarize our conclusions as to construc- 

 tive action and world architecture as follows: 



Every individual thing in nature is a resultant prod- 

 uct of cooperative action between itself and its outer 

 world. The influence of these cooperative agencies, 

 great and small, on one another is mutual, but not 

 equivalent. The effect is profitable, or cumulative, and 

 tends mutually to direct, or mould, the world's content 

 into more and more diversified architectural forms, 

 which are themselves more and more unified by the 

 cooperative action of their constituent parts, subject to 

 directive external control. Therein lies the source of 

 their increment in power. The resultant constructive 

 and conserving action is what we call growth, or pro- 

 gress, or evolution, or creation, or constructive Tight- 

 ness. 



Man's bodily structure is the final product of indi- 

 vidualized cell growth, cell multiplication, and cellu- 

 lar socialization, in which the cooperating cells and 

 their products are either definitely localized or con- 

 veyed, so as to form a symmetrical, triaxial system of 



