Associated Motives Multiplex i8i 



mutual interest and participation. It Can be inferred con- 

 versely that the progress of a community is promoted by 

 the separate progress of its members; and that so long as 

 the interdependence remains unbroken, the individual bene- 

 fit, and even an elevation of a few to superior reward, is 

 advantageous to all; to those not so elevated as well as to 

 those visibly successful; because of the stimulus to activity. 



The toleration which is thus seen to grow rather than to 

 disappear, as the organization enlarges, reveals the essen- 

 tially voluntary nature of the association. The activities 

 which are promoted in nature to this survival in fitness, are 

 the voluntary activities. A moment's thought suffices to 

 reach a perception of the greater efficiency of voluntary 

 activity, as compared with involuntary. Even if well organ- 

 ized and well controlled, a conduct unit of enforced and 

 unwilling individuals is seen, wherever found, to be of less 

 capacity than a unit of equal size and equal organization, of 

 willing unity. And to this efficiency there must be added 

 the effect of the preference, rooted in nature, for conduct 

 of one's own choosing, as a means to comfort and happiness, 

 which is after all the chief purpose of effort. 



A union which begins and remains as a voluntary com- 

 bination, evidently allows a retention by the individuals of 

 much of their original judgment and independence; potential 

 even if not exercised, and this original character persisting, 

 is in fact a continuing factor in human association. The 

 persons coming together relinquish so much of their old 

 nature of individual freedom, as is necessary to the union; 

 and no more. They organize for such conduct as is neces- 

 sarily the conduct of a greater corporation; and for such 



