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are progressive in character — the organic process from the principle of 

 variability, the super-organic process from the principle of utility. In 

 each case the progressive action of these intrinsic principles is con- 

 scribed and restricted by extrinsic conditions — variability by environ- 

 mental conditions, utility by circumstantial conditions. In each case 

 also the interaction of intrinsic principles and extrinsic conditions is 

 directed and controlled by factors which are neither intrinsic'' nor 

 extrinsic, but rather intermediate in character — the interaction of 

 variability and environment by selection, the interaction of utility and 

 circumstance by evaluation. Finally, both processes are arrested and 

 established to some extent by the influence of other intrinsic principles 

 that are conservative in character, the organic process by heredity, the 

 super-organic process by imitation. But enough of this, a parallelism 

 pushed too far comes dangerously near an analogy. In another paper 

 I shall endeavor to show in what sense the suggested principles of 

 super-organic development are subsequent to the known principles of 

 organic evolution. 



