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  THE 
  CRITERIA 
  OF 
  LIVINGNESS 
  

  

  Thirdly, 
  there 
  is 
  another 
  triad 
  of 
  qualities 
  (a) 
  effective 
  be- 
  

   haviour, 
  (b) 
  registration 
  of 
  experiences 
  and 
  experiments, 
  and 
  (c) 
  

   variability. 
  The 
  common 
  note 
  here 
  is 
  agency, 
  self-expression, 
  

   creativeness. 
  (a) 
  Behaviour, 
  exhibited 
  at 
  many 
  levels 
  and 
  in 
  

   diverse 
  modes, 
  is 
  an 
  organically 
  determined 
  concatenated 
  series 
  

   of 
  acts 
  converging 
  towards 
  a 
  definite 
  result. 
  Its 
  common 
  fea- 
  

   tures 
  are 
  correlation, 
  individuality, 
  and 
  purposiveness. 
  (b) 
  The 
  

   effectiveness 
  which 
  characterises 
  organic 
  behaviour 
  depends 
  on 
  

   the 
  organism's 
  power 
  of 
  profiting 
  by 
  experience 
  in 
  the 
  individ- 
  

   ual 
  lifetime, 
  or 
  on 
  the 
  entailed 
  results 
  of 
  ancestral 
  experiments 
  

   (chiefly 
  perhaps 
  germinal 
  variations), 
  or, 
  usually, 
  on 
  both, 
  (c) 
  

   The 
  crowning 
  attribute 
  and 
  the 
  most 
  elusive 
  is 
  variability, 
  the 
  

   organism's 
  power 
  but, 
  more 
  accurately 
  perhaps, 
  the 
  germ-cell's 
  

   power 
  of 
  giving 
  rise 
  to 
  something 
  distinctively 
  new. 
  

  

  