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on Development and Purpose has with a master's hand 

 traced the development and interpretation of experience 

 from its humble naive beginnings to its culmination in 

 the vast conceptual system of Science. I must here rest 

 content with the preceding summary statement. What 

 I have said will, however, I hope, suffice to show that 

 Mind the Rebel is only one aspect of holistic activity; and 

 that Mind the Organiser, Mind the Central Control in our 

 experience of the world is the other equally true comple- 

 mentary aspect. Behind both aspects is that inner crea- 

 tive Holism which has flowered into the human Mind and 

 Personality on the one hand and into the grandeur of 

 form and content of the infinite universe on the other. 

 The theory of Holism thus carries the scientific system of 

 experience another step further, and tries to read in the 

 riddles of Science still deeper and more ultimate concepts 

 of reality. 



Mind has been here described as a new variation or muta- 

 tion or series of mutations in holistic Evolution, in some 

 respects antithetic to and at variance with its main trend. 

 But its final result is immensely to enrich the main process. 

 Mind has made all the difference to the later and latest 

 stages of Evolution. Without Mind the organic and regu- 

 lative process of the universe, vast and magnificent in any 

 case, would have been at best but a tame affair. The 

 universe would have moved forward, as it were in a dream, 

 with an unearthly regularity and majesty of movement. 

 Its process would have become ever more complicated and 

 ever more frictionless, as of some sublime animated machine, 

 great beyond all power of conception. All elements of 

 discord and disharmony would have passed away from its 

 vast cosmic routine. But it would have gone on sublimely 

 unconscious of itself. It would have had no soul or souls; it 

 would have harboured no passionate exaltations ; no poignant 

 regrets or bitter sorrows would have disturbed its profound 

 peace. For it neither the great lights nor the deep shadows. 

 Truth, Beauty and Goodness would have been there, but 

 unknown, unseen, unloved. They would have been cold and 



