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a whole that is not antagonistic, but moves in the 

 same general direction as do our history and our 

 aims. There does exist, in Matthew Arnold's words, 

 "a power, not ourselves, that makes for righteous- 

 ness." And this second aspect is not wholly separate 

 from the first, in spite of its difference of direction; 

 for the first is its parent, physically and temporally, 

 and the direction of biological progress is the con- 

 tinuation of a line of development marked out, with- 

 in the opposed inorganic direction, even from the 

 first. 



Next, there is a more immediate and more often 

 demanded assurance that we, as individuals or as 

 single communities in space or time, are at one with 

 humanity as a whole. Here it is that we look to 

 the third aspect of God, which enshrines the directive 

 forces operating in man. These directive forces are 

 our instincts, our needs, our values, our ideals. When 

 those are harmonized with each other and with the 

 outer world by reason and experience, they form a 

 power which we can see has been directive, norma- 

 tive in the past, and will continue to be so in the 

 future. It alters with man's development; but after 

 a first rudimentary phase, its main outlines, its type 

 of organization remain the same, for man's instincts 

 and ideals do not greatly change, and their harmoni- 

 zation with each other and with experience will gen- 

 erally proceed in the same broad way. Although in 

 a sense this aspect is the smallest, as comprising the 

 smallest physical field, yet in another it is the larg- 



