They are each autonomous: not in the sense that they don't need each other, but in the sense that they each 'do their own thing', and this is built into their nature.

They follow the pressures of their own instincts, emotions, intelligence and understanding. These and not any imposed machinery relate them to the order of the world and one another.

The bees in the hive do not have to be ordered around, nor do the leaves on the tree.

The key then to the effective ordering of the whole lies in the right ordering of the personal faculties within the individual cells/beings/people.

So the natural development of the individual cell/person becomes of supreme importance to the whole. Far from the individual and the collective, freedom and order, being opposites that have to be reconciled as in the organisational mode, they go together.

For the freer these cells/organisms/people, the more developed and actualised will be their instincts, emotions, intelligence and understanding: we all know how animals in captivity lose their primal beauty and capability.

The freer therefore, the better will they be able to relate to and empathise with other organisms, other people, the world at large.

The freer the parts the more effective the whole organism will be.

That has been the experience of all the brief periods of 'FREEDOM' in the history of civilisation.

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