3 88 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



ing, and the agencies it is automatically creating within 

 itself for its own upbuilding. 



Man, with feverish activity, is forever striving to 

 overtake his own purposes, like a cat chasing its own 

 tail; when the speed and power to gain his ends are 

 found, the ends are no longer there, but new ones are 

 seen still just out of reach. His perpetual invention of 

 better and more powerful instruments of conveyance 

 multiplies his desires, feeds them but does satisfy them, 

 and thus are means to a larger end than the mere 

 acquisition of more speed, or physical power, or wealth, 

 or comfort, or leisure, or knowledge, or art, or the do- 

 minion of man over nature's organic and physical 

 forces. All these gains are but instruments to an evolu- 

 tionary goal, not ends in themselves. 



They but enable life to multiply the more, thereby 

 laying still heavier compulsion on man's intelligence, 

 and enforcing stricter moral discipline upon him, in 

 order to preserve his increase. The multiplication of 

 man is that growth in numbers necessary to give world- 

 life its bodily completion, its social unity and continu- 

 ity, its volume and variety of human resources. Man's 

 machinery of social conveyance, his commerce, science, 

 literature, and art, his acquisition of vast sources of 

 physical power, are but the necessary preliminaries to 

 the upbuilding of the physical anatomy, the circulatory 

 system, nerve centres, and sense organs, the sources and 

 reservoirs of physical supplies and spiritual stimuli, 

 essential to a world-wide cooperative life. 



Man's intelligence, that new instrument in evolu- 

 tion, which primarily served, and rightly, his own sel- 

 fish, individual ends, having accomplished its initial 



