﻿ADAPTIVENESS 
  AND 
  PURPOSIVENESS 
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  index 
  of 
  idiosyncrasies; 
  the 
  inter-relatedness 
  of 
  life, 
  with 
  

   myriad 
  threads 
  woven 
  in 
  a 
  patterned 
  web 
  ; 
  the 
  drama 
  of 
  life, 
  

   -plot 
  within 
  plot, 
  age 
  after 
  age, 
  with 
  every 
  conceivable 
  

   illustration 
  of 
  the 
  twin 
  motives 
  of 
  hunger 
  and 
  love; 
  the 
  

   flux 
  of 
  life, 
  even 
  under 
  our 
  short-lived 
  eyes; 
  the 
  progress 
  

   of 
  life, 
  slowly 
  creeping 
  upwards 
  through 
  unthinkable 
  time, 
  

   expressing 
  itself 
  in 
  ever 
  nobler 
  forms 
  ; 
  the 
  beauty 
  of 
  life,- 
  

   every 
  finished 
  organism 
  an 
  artistic 
  harmony; 
  the 
  morality 
  

   of 
  life, 
  spending 
  itself 
  to 
  the 
  death 
  for 
  other 
  than 
  individ- 
  

   ual 
  ends; 
  the 
  mentality 
  of 
  life, 
  sometimes 
  quietly 
  dream- 
  

   ing, 
  sometimes 
  sleep-walking, 
  sometimes 
  widely-awake; 
  and 
  

   the 
  victory 
  of 
  life, 
  subduing 
  material 
  things 
  to 
  its 
  will, 
  and 
  

   in 
  its 
  highest 
  reaches 
  controlling 
  itself 
  towards 
  an 
  increasing 
  

   purpose. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  something 
  to 
  have 
  found 
  warrant 
  for 
  regarding 
  the 
  

   Realm 
  of 
  Organisms 
  as 
  pervaded 
  with 
  active 
  purposiveness. 
  

   At 
  a 
  later 
  stage 
  in 
  the 
  argument 
  we 
  shall 
  show 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  

   at 
  least 
  a 
  presumption 
  in 
  favour 
  of 
  the 
  view 
  that 
  Nature 
  is 
  

   Nature 
  for 
  a 
  purpose 
  an 
  increasing 
  and 
  transcendent 
  pur- 
  

   pose. 
  At 
  this 
  stage 
  it 
  seems 
  as 
  if 
  part 
  of 
  that 
  purpose 
  were 
  

   the 
  emergence 
  of 
  individuality, 
  mind, 
  freedom, 
  purpose. 
  

   This 
  thrilling 
  word 
  purpose, 
  expressing 
  the 
  most 
  real 
  fact 
  

   in 
  our 
  personal 
  experience, 
  brings 
  us 
  at 
  this 
  half-way 
  house 
  

   to 
  our 
  provisional 
  conclusion 
  which 
  is, 
  we 
  confess, 
  too 
  large 
  

   for 
  the 
  premises, 
  that 
  individualities 
  with 
  mind, 
  with 
  free- 
  

   dom, 
  and 
  with 
  purpose, 
  cannot 
  be 
  accounted 
  for 
  in 
  terms 
  of 
  

   a 
  ground 
  of 
  reality 
  without 
  mind, 
  without 
  freedom, 
  without 
  

   purpose. 
  Therefore 
  let 
  us 
  humbly 
  seek 
  after, 
  if 
  haply 
  we 
  

   may 
  find, 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  footprints 
  of 
  the 
  Creator, 
  who 
  be- 
  

   holding 
  all 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  His 
  hands 
  found 
  them 
  good 
  for 
  

   His 
  purpose. 
  

  

  