It was bigness insurgent.

In spite of prejudice, in spite of law and regulation, in spite of all that obstinate conservatism that lies at the base of the formal order of mankind, the Food of the Gods, once it had been set going, pursued its subtle and invincible progress.
The children of the Food grew steadily through all these years; that was the cardinal fact of the time.

But it is the leakages make history.

The children who had eaten grew, and soon there were other children growing; and all the best intentions in the world could not stop further leakages and still further leakages.

The Food insisted on escaping with the pertinacity of a thing alive.