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constructive purpose, became the unconscious, and now 

 the conscious, directive and constructive agency in a 

 new world-life. Intelligence, therefore, and her off- 

 spring, science, religion, philosophy, and art, like all 

 other cosmic agencies, is primarily egoistic, self-crea- 

 tive, and self-saving, and then turns its new-born powers 

 to super-service, to altruism, or to the still larger con- 

 structive ends of world-life. 



The time is ripe for man to catch the spirit of this 

 mental obligation now laid upon him. 



IV. The Ways and Means to a Purposeful World-Life 



How can this embryonic world-life, now entering 

 its conscious stage, accomplish its creative purposes? 

 Solely by using present powers for future, altruistic 

 ends. As in the parental benevolence of animal life, 

 and as in all other phases of evolutionary strategy, pro- 

 visions must be made for future usage, consciously or 

 unconsciously, on a scale commensurate with the social 

 purposes to be accomplished. It should not surprise us 

 that all the pleasures and satisfactions in life, sensory 

 and mental, consist in doing these very things. 



But the creative powers in mutual service, whether 

 expressed as reflex actions; or as sexual, or nutritive 

 instincts; or as religious, scientific, or philosophic mo- 

 tives; or as the highest ideals resident in the masters 

 only, are impotent as constructive social agencies with- 

 out the machinery for their accomplishment. 



To turn these potential agencies into realities, a 

 larger, more controlling number must have these mo- 

 tives, or ideals, and themselves provide a permanent 



