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conative activity is not merely self-regarding but gradually 

 becomes linked with the interests of others, and finally 

 becomes an impersonal endeavour towards the Good. A 

 new era of adjustments and co-ordinations sets in, and the 

 individual on the psychic plane pursues the double task of 

 self-protection and perfection of the All. And the two 

 mutually and reciprocally influence and modify each other 

 and shape an ideal of Good which incorporates elements 

 from both. Holism has narrowed itself into the individual 

 only thereby to advance to a more perfect all-embracing 

 order. The apparent retreat to the individual level is 

 merely for the purpose of a greater advance towards whole- 

 ness. The newer, deeper Self becomes the centre for a 

 fresh ordering and harmony of the universal. 



The possibility for this great transformation is given in 

 the very nature of Mind; for Mind is not merely conative 

 and purposive. It is also rational, it is the basis of the 

 Reason. And Reason becomes the basis of the new order 

 in the universe. It is not only the principle of order in the 

 Self, but also the link which binds the Self and the Not-self 

 into a whole. Reason is the organ of universality, of the 

 deeper, more intensive universality of the spirit. Reason 

 is largely creative of the new structures of Reality and 

 Truth. In the Reason, Mind, instead of pursuing its in- 

 dividualistic, purposive activity, resumes the primeval 

 march of Holism towards more regulation, a higher co- 

 ordination and a greater order. Our will is the urge towards 

 self-expression, and is therefore the organ of individuality. 

 "Our wills are ours to make them Thine." In other words, 

 our will is individualistic and has to be harmonised and 

 through effort and struggle to be adjusted to higher ethical 

 and spiritual ends and ideals. But our Reason is in its very 

 essence more than individual; it is expressive of univer- 

 sality; it is a part of that Order which regulates the universe, 

 and in a deep sense it is a creative factor or co-creator of 

 that Order. Through our Reason we partake of universality 

 and are members of the everlasting Order of the universal. 



Mind in its rational, as distinguished from its purely 



