3 86 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



And then the mystic embryo, apparently com- 

 pounded of countless discordant parts, expresses its or- 

 ganic unity in rhythmic heart-beats and convulsive 

 movements, and finally in more purposeful bodily 

 actions. 



In the worlds developing social life, the same mys- 

 tery of embryonic phenomena is now being displayed 

 before our very eyes. We may see there the same 

 methods in action, utilized for the same purposes; and 

 in a similar manner its emerging physical structures 

 and coordinated vital actions reveal to us its growing 

 unity and cooperative organization. 



The larger features of this embryo Leviathan are 

 seen in the checker-board of states and empires which 

 are now taking on more coherent and stable form in 

 response to their historic antecedents, their inherent 

 qualities, and their local environments. These national 

 units, once established, immediately express their indi- 

 viduality by the international exchange of their material 

 commodities and spiritual influences. The human will 

 cannot inhibit the flowing of these cross currents any 

 more than atoms can suppress their affinities, or the 

 ocean inhibit the flowing of its own waters. The mutual 

 influences of man on man, and state on state, operate 

 whether man wills it or not. 



These vital influences are now taking on, in due 

 creative sequence, the more substantial form of vessels, 

 cars, and air-ships ; they are the larger blood corpuscles 

 of the growing international circulation, giving up and 

 receiving their life sustaining cargoes, regardless of 

 nominal boundaries, along the great channels and high- 

 ways of terrestrial conveyance. 



And the press, the post, the phonograph, and the 



