ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the life of anything there are always three sets of facts or laws to be taken into account, namely: the facts of organic structure; the facts of organic growth; and the facts of organic evolution. The dependence of structure upon function, and the interdependence of all the parts and functions upon one another, are organic characteristics which may certainly be predicated of society. Society is not one, as Plato would have made it, in such a way that every injury to any insignificant part of it is felt at once through all the parts. The chapter deals chiefly with generalities about the organic nature of society. It argues that social life, or any bit of it, has certain definite organic characteristics, far the most important being that of "interdependence". The chapter focuses on the laws of growth as they affect the reform of the individual members of society.
