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out of all proportion to her modest request. The peahen 

 has no discriminating understanding of the wondrous 

 colouring of the peacock, which far transcends even our 

 human powers; but in some inscrutable way something of 

 an emotional nature in her takes it all in and is satisfied. 

 It is deep calling unto deep; it is the whole appealing to the 

 whole. There is evidently more in all this than the Dar- / 

 winian factors can satisfactorily explain, and it would be 

 both foolish and unscientific not to recognise this frankly. 

 To me the conclusion of the matter is that the inexhaustible I 

 whole is itself at work, that Holism is an active factor 

 interacting with the particular Darwinian factors, that not 

 only its aim but also its output far exceeds the immediate- 

 present utilities and needs of organic Evolution, and that - 

 its bow is bent for the distant horizons, far beyond all human 

 power of vision and understanding. 



