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follows Nature's plan. Conscious ends emerge; things the 

 individual strives after as desirable and good attract him 

 more than the unconscious organic urge behind, the vis a 

 tergo, propels him; the pulls in front begin to dominate 

 the pushes behind. The desired things become the 

 Values, which intelligence illuminates and magnifies and 

 emotions suffuse and intensify until they become the 

 dominant Ideals of action. We see the rise not only of new 

 mental activities but of new categories such as Purpose and 

 Value, which were not possible or necessary on the organic 

 level. It is evident that these new activities, such as at- 

 tention, consciousness, intelligence, emotion and will, as 

 well as the new categories which accompany them, are all 

 in line with the individuational development of Holism, and 

 mark so to say a deviation from the direct line of organic 

 regulation and systematic co-ordination which characterised 

 Holism in its earlier organic development. They make di- 

 rectly for the development of the individual, of the self, of 

 the Personality. Holism seems for the moment to depart 

 from its vast plan of extensive co-ordination and harmonisa- 

 tion in order to foster little centres of intensive Wholeness 

 in individuals, to place the little wholes before the great 

 Whole, and to abandon universality for individuality. In 

 fact the largely individualistic nature of Mind makes it 

 apparently a deviation from the universal order. Mind 

 appears as a rebel in the universe, whose self-centredness 

 and purposeful striving might and largely does make for 

 disharmony and disorder rather than for peace, order and 

 harmony. Thus the great Ethical problem arises; thus the 

 conflict between individual ends. and purp®ses on the one 

 hand and universal claims and rights on the other comes to 

 the surface on the psychic plane of Evolution. Mind the 

 rebel has appeared, Self the anarchist has emerged, and the 

 ancient order of the universe is profoundly disturbed. The 

 new psychic individualistic situation applies a most searching 

 test to the foundations of the holistic universe. The war 

 in heaven has broken out, the archangels have revolted. 

 Who will win, and what is the character of the new peace 



