264 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



are experimentally proved to be best fitted for them. Suc 

 cession by inheritance is thus the principle of social rigidity; 

 while succession by efficiency is the principle of social 

 plasticity. 



Though, to make cooperation possible, and therefore to 

 facilitate social growth, there must be organization, yet the 

 organization formed impedes further growth ; since further 

 growth implies re-organization, which the existing organiza 

 tion resists ; and since the existing organization absorbs part 

 of the material for growth. 



So that while, at each stage, better immediate results may 

 be achieved by completing organization, they must be at the 

 expense of better ultimate results. 



