BIOLOGICAL CONTROL 



terial used is drawn from the outside. 

 The power employed is a manifestation of 

 the vital energies, which also in last analy- 

 sis come from outside sources. This is 

 the natural functional expression of pro- 

 toplasmic organization and the growth im- 

 plies that the organization changes from 

 moment to moment as the process goes on. 

 Learning is a creative process of the same 

 sort. Every child builds up anew his own 

 store of knowledge just as he does his 

 body. Invention creates new arrange- 

 ments of materials in machines, new com- 

 binations of form and color in sculpture 

 and painting, new ideas in imaginative lit- 

 erature, which never before were expe- 

 rienced. 



Evolution is the preeminent natural cre- 

 ative process. There is no evidence that 

 when life began on our planet or when 

 our cosmos began all subsequent history 

 was actually present enwrapped in that 

 primordial beginning. On the contrary, 

 the evidence is that all growth and all evo- 

 lution are genuinely creative events. At 

 every step new patterns are fabricated by 

 working over old materials; they are not 

 merely unfolded ready-made. 



In growth and in every other vital func- 



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