4 io GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



tant bodily functions from one set of agents to another 

 is peacefully accomplished without interrupting the 

 flow of vital actions. 



It may be that in our ultimate social metamorpho- 

 sis, the older system of democratic government, based 

 so largely on territorial and numerical representation, 

 will not be wholly destroyed, but will be in part pre- 

 served as mutually stimulating vocal organs for both 

 sexes, finding its chief usefulness in irritant oratory 

 and in resonant congressional chambers. 



X. The Extension of State Functions into Inter- 

 national Functions 



The functional agencies, which are so essential to the 

 upbuilding of the state, cannot be restricted in their 

 creative action to the internal life of the state. They 

 inevitably extend, consciously or unconsciously, far be- 

 yond all nominal boundaries, and become cooperative 

 international functions. 



To give these international functions stability and 

 the directive quality of human intelligence consciously 

 acting in national self-preservation, international cov- 

 enants recognizing mutual rights and mutual obliga- 

 tions, .and thereby giving these international pledges 

 the authority of international law, are as imperative as 

 they are in smaller social groups. 



But this more purposeful international cooperation 

 is not likely to be realized through the instrumentality 

 of existing political agencies, because the state is so 

 largely organized for narrower selfish ends, and be- 

 cause its political agents are not the ones best fitted in 

 spirit, training, or motives, adequately to recognize the 



