4 o8 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



and formally to express, and to assume, their social 

 obligations. 



The anlage of an organic government of this char- 

 acter, independent of the more formal government, 

 exists within every modern state. It makes its appear- 

 ance no one knows exactly when or where, as more or 

 less informal, or supplementary methods of utilizing 

 latent resources in more purposeful social action. These 

 better methods tend to develop within every growing 

 social group, whatever its social formulas may be; in- 

 evitably creating more unity and saving order out of a 

 chaos of conflicting purposes. 



The greater prevision and provision essential to the 

 existence of larger and more enduring organic units 

 make parental guidance, benevolence, and self-sacrifice 

 the most characteristic attributes of such units wherever 

 they exist. In the same way, social growth inevitably 

 raises man above the lower levels of petty selfishness to 

 higher levels of super-service and altruism. It auto- 

 matically creates devotion to larger purposes, thereby 

 creating the very agencies which are the instruments 

 to social salvation. Therein lies the assurance of future 

 progress. 



In times of stress, and in great social emergencies, 

 like that of the recent war, the sheer power of social 

 service breaks down, or through all artificial barriers; 

 spending itself in the attainment of its goal, it welds 

 divergent wills together, shatters class distinctions, and 

 differentiates anew the democratic masses; vitalizing 

 with its energy all forms of society in a similar way, 

 and creating in them similar organic structures. 



Leadership, and the right of way, opens to him who 

 best foresees demands, and to those who best supply 



