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grew on this earth. For it is a tree without 

 flowers ; a tree with nothing but stem and leaves ; 

 a tree that performed the function of Nutrition, and 

 forgot all about Reproduction. The great unrecog- 

 nized truth of social science is that the Social 

 Organism has grown and flowered and fruited in 

 virtue of the continuous activities and inter-relations 

 of the two co-related functions of Nutrition and 

 Reproduction, that these two dominants being at 

 work it could not but grow, and grow in the way- 

 it has grown. When the dual nature of the 

 evolving forces is perceived ; when their reactions 

 upon one another are understood ; when the changed 

 material with which they have to work from time 

 to time, the further obstacles confronting them at 

 every stage, the new Environments which modify 

 their action as the centuries add their growths 

 and disencumber them of their withered leaves, — 

 when all this is observed, the whole social order 

 falls into line. From the dawn of life these two 

 forces have acted together, one continually separat- 

 ing, the other continually uniting ; one continually 

 looking to its own things, the other to the things 

 of Others. Both are great in Nature — but " the 

 greatest of these is Love." 



