390 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



vehicle for transmitting them from man to man, and 

 from generation to generation. 



To act purposefully, with some measure of social 

 unison and common profit, as for example in the way 

 the bodily organs perform their purposeful actions for 

 the frog, the physical, organic, and mental machinery 

 of social conveyance must first be created, which will 

 make it possible for great social groups to preserve their 

 ideals; to advertise their supplies and demands; to store 

 up, or transport their commodities; and to check, or 

 stimulate, their activities as the common welfare may 

 demand. All that means national and international co- 

 operation, commercial and educational, resting on some 

 common understanding; on some basic community of 

 methods and motives. 



The growth of such a system may be left to chance, 

 or till the slow action of natural laws establishes an 

 equitable balance in the flow of social give and take. 

 But in that case, the human quality in intelligent co- 

 operative action, and the fulfilment of man's moral 

 obligations, would be absent. The process can be 

 hastened, rectified, or regulated, given its human qua- 

 lity, only through the operation of the ordinary pro- 

 cesses of intelligent action in self-interests; that is by 

 foresight and self-denial, based on experience and on a 

 knowledge of natural laws and conditions. That means 

 what is commonly called "science" in its broader mean- 

 ing; or some knowledge of world movements, the nature 

 and volume of world resources, anticipation of the 

 world's supplies and demands, and a knowledge of the 

 right ways and means of utilizing one to satisfy the 

 other. 



