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"movies," the material receptors and transmitters of 

 the new life, with their printed films and chiseled metal 

 shields, their branching copper filaments, flash the 

 feeble calls of man to man, and state to state, through- 

 out the world; and black and brown respond to white, 

 and white to black and brown, in reassuring flashes. 



At last, the myriad vacillating atoms of world-life 

 have emerged from the primordial chaos of futile isola- 

 tion and conflicting motives, joined in ever larger 

 groups to spiritual continuity, through steel clad cars 

 and tiny dots and dashes. At last the west stirs uneasily 

 to the call of the east, and the north to the call of the 

 south. The heart of the world-life has begun to beat 

 and her forces to act in unison. 



The differences between all these quickening agen- 

 cies of world-life and those of the quickening embryo 

 are in dimensions^ materials and agents, not in methods, 

 purpose, or results. In both cases there is present the 

 same element of inevitable progress, the same basic 

 compulsion to growth and organization inherent in the 

 "make up" of their constituent parts. In both cases, as 

 in a Red Cross act, cosmic agencies, and the physical 

 machinery of life, must be rightly utilized to establish 

 cooperative continuity with the ultimate chemical and 

 organic forces of the living body before growth can 

 take place, and when that is accomplished growth takes 

 place automatically. In both cases, all the essential 

 processes involved are cooperative, mutually service- 

 able, saving and creative in their results if not in their 

 "purposes." x 



We are now beginning to see more clearly some- 

 thing of the grand strategy of evolution, something of 

 the purpose, or end, toward which world-life is mov- 



