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' worlds of matter and life are its work. But more; as we 

 proceed upward in the course of Evolution we find Holism 

 the source of all values. Love, Beauty, Goodness, Truth: 

 they are all of the whole; the whole is their source, and in 

 the whole alone they find their last satisfying explanation. 

 Holism not only prescribes the law in the world of struc- 

 tures, forms and organisms; it is the very ground and 

 principle of the ideal world of the spirit. It is in the 

 sphere of spiritual values that Holism finds its clearest 

 embodiment in fact, and its most decisive vindication as an 

 ultimate category of explanation. Its creativeness will no- 

 where be found more fruitful than in that last and highest 

 reach of its evolution. Here it would be premature to do 

 more than merely refer to this aspect of creative Holism. 

 The exposition of its creative activity in shaping the great 

 Ideals of the Whole is, however, too large a task to be under- 

 taken in this introductory work. 



