282 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



come compulsory, and now awaits only a more "volun- 

 tary" human guidance, before further social evolution 

 can be realized. 



The cohesive power of social life is the will to create 

 social institutions. Acting under the compulsion of 

 self-preservation, man is compelled to provide that 

 power out of his own resources as soon as elemental in- 

 telligence dictates to him that social institutions are 

 his personal possessions usable in self-construction and 

 self-preservation. 



