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' Intra-selection ' (4) was directly applied by him to his 

 interpretation of Roux' 'Struggle,' Delage's phrase is not 

 likely to have currency as a substitute for Intra-selection. 

 As ' Functional Selection ' (5) is a special means of motor 

 accommodation, it is additional (and in a sense subordi- 

 nate) to Intra-selection, since it has a functional reference. 

 7, 8, 9. A separate heading might be given to Professor 

 Lloyd Morgan's phrase 'Conscious Selection,' but it will 

 be seen that, as he uses it, i.e., in broad antithesis to 

 ' Natural Selection,' it really includes all those special 

 forms of selection in which a state of consciousness plays the 

 selecting role 1 (7, 8, 9, II, 12). It would be ambiguous 

 if used for cases where natural selection operates on 

 mental and social variations (5, 6, 10), since it might 

 then mean the survival of the conscious ; and even when 

 applicable, as in sexual selection (9), 2 with respect to the 

 'means' of the selection, it maybe ambiguous with respect 

 to the 'result' of the selection. This last ambiguity, which 

 is brought out in the table (8, 9), 3 makes it desirable to 

 confine the phrase ' Conscious Selection ' (if used at all) to 

 cases which result in continuance of what is desirable 

 for consciousness or thought. ' Personal Selection ' is 

 suggested (8) for selection by human personal choice, 

 analogous to Sexual Selection (9) and to Romanes' ' Physi- 

 ological Selection ' (13). Furthermore, Darwin's 'Artificial 



1 This, indeed, is still liable to the question as to whose is the state of con- 

 scioiisness, giving the difference (both in means and result) seen between 

 'Artificial' (7) and 'Sexual' (9) selection. Ward's suggestion of the phrase 

 ' subjective selection ' (i.e., by consciousness) in antithesis to natural selection 

 (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed., Art. 'Psychology')^ was earlier. 



2 Lloyd Morgan, Habit and Instinct, pp. 219, 271. 



3 The bird ' selects ' (sexually) for the sake of the experience, and it is a sec- 

 ondary result that she is also thus ' selected ' for mating with the male and so for 

 continuing his attractive characters with her own characters in the offspring. 



