396 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



That which gives it an outstanding unity is the dis- 

 tinctive character of its more immediate physical, 

 organic, and spiritual resources, and the degree of their 

 organization. Its physical topography and climate, the 

 history of its peoples, their education, and the funda- 

 mental unity of their thought and purpose, are decis- 

 ive factors. 



With growth all these conditions change. The old 

 methods of internal and external conveyance must be 

 improved and extended in order to preserve these 

 gains; this, when accomplished, merely serves to unite 

 larger areas and larger groups of people into more 

 intimate cooperation. 



VII. The Government of the State 



One of the chief sources of social instability is the 

 diversity of opinion as to the right points and sequence 

 of attack in social betterment. These opinions reflect 

 the different desires of the social constituents, their 

 various degrees of experience and wisdom, and their 

 unequal incentives to action. 



The ostensible purpose may be immediately to im- 

 prove the internal life of some individual citizen, or 

 class, or race, or nation; or their external life, or, ulti- 

 mately, both in all. But even though it may have been 

 clearly recognized, here and there, that the welfare of 

 each constituent individual is essential to the existence 

 of the state, and the welfare of the state essential to 

 each one of its constituents, at no time in human history 

 has there been any notable equality of desire, or of pur- 

 poseful action, to that end; or any consensus of opinion 

 as to the best ways and means of attaining it. These 



