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be achieved, and consistently maintained at that higher 

 level, only through greater diversity of mental powers 

 among individuals, and a corresponding subdivision of 

 authority between them. In other words, through mu- 

 tual submission to the guidance of delegated experts. 



If that is done, social organization and growth 

 passes over into the third alternative method, which 

 we will now consider in somewhat more detail. 



VI. The Delegation of Functional Authority and 

 Voluntary Submission to Leadership 



The third method is a combination of the first two. 

 That is, it is a method of growth based on coopera- 

 tive mental action, or mutual guidance and mutual sub- 

 mission to direction. It is, in fact, an extension into 

 the social group of the familiar principle of functional 

 acceleration and inhibition which governs the self- 

 constructive action of the living body. It is the only 

 method of social growth that is practically unlimited 

 in its creative possibilities. 



Social growth is governed by the same creative law 

 that controls all other constructive processes in nature. 

 This law may be expressed somewhat as follows: 

 Growth always creates progressively diversified condi- 

 tions within the growing structure. These conditions 

 tend to create, or demand, corresponding diversity in 

 the constituent parts. Hence more diversified construc- 

 tive agents, and more elaborate cooperation between 

 them, are essential to every additional step in the con- 

 structive process. Growth will continue as long as these 



