benefit of the body as a whole? Does the hand, for example, grasp for
itself or in order that the entire body may come into possession? Only
slight study is sufficient to reveal the fact that each organ performs a
work which benefits the body as a whole. In other words, just as the organ
itself is a part of the body, the work which it does is a part of the
necessary work which the body has to do.

But in working for the general good, or for the body as a whole, each
organ becomes a sharer in the benefits of the work done by every other
organ. While the hand receives only a little of the nourishment contained
in the food which it places in the mouth or of the heat from, fuel which
it places on the fire, it is aided and supported by the work of all the
other organs of the body—eyes, feet, brain, heart, etc. The hand does not
and cannot work independently of the other organs. It is one of the
partners in a very close combination where, by doing a particular work,
it, shares in the profits of all. What is true of the hand is true of
every other organ of the body.

*An Organization.*—The relations which the different organs sustain to
each other and to the body as a whole suggest the possibility of
classifying the body as an organization. This term is broadly applied to a
variety of combinations. An organization is properly defined as _any group
of individuals which, in working together for a common purpose, practices
the division of labor_. This definition will be better understood by
considering a few familiar examples.

A baseball team is an organization. The team is made up of individual
players. These work together for the common purpose of winning games. They
practice the division of labor in that the different players do different
things—one catching, another pitching, and so on. A manufacturing