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going to be? Such is the question which we now proceed 

 to consider. 



The first and most important point to make is that we 

 should not be misled by our own metaphors. Individuation 

 is but an aspect and no more, is but one aspect of the holistic 

 advance. The other, universal, aspect remains of funda- 

 mental importance, although for the moment it may be 

 and probably is pushed somewhat into the background. 

 The two aspects are complementary and interdependent, 

 and each has a vital grip on the other. The individual is 

 going to be universalised, the universal is going to be in- 

 dividualised, and thus from both directions the whole is 

 going to be enriched. The individual development is 

 necessary for the advance. Organic regulation, however 

 great an advance on inorganic structural order, is not 

 enough. It is still too mechanical and rigid; it is still too ex- 

 ternal in character. It must acquire new characters of inter- 

 nality; there must be more self-regulation and less external 

 regulation. There must be more inner intensive mobility, 

 more plasticity and less rigid regulation. Plasticity, free- 

 dom, creativeness are necessary for the new groupings and 

 structures which are to arise on the psychic level. The 

 higher metabolism of mind demands more freedom from the 

 routine of organic regulation. The area and degrees of 

 freedom must be indefinitely enlarged, and in the Self a new 

 organiser of victory must be constituted. That is the one 

 side of the dual advance; but the other is there all the time 

 and in the end just as important. Thus there must also be 

 a higher order, a more developed and enriched universality, 

 a more coherent objectivity. More wholeness not only 

 means a deeper, more intensive individuality in the Self, 

 but also a more perfect order in the structure of Reality. 

 And the two must interpenetrate each other and mutually 

 transform each other in that unity which is the whole. And 

 that is exactly what happens in the evolution of mind in 

 man and animals, and in the development of mind in the 

 human individual. The selfish appetite is gradually curbed 

 and subdued and co-ordinated with other motives; the 



