626 THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF INDIVIDUALITY 



to be active in both the inorganic world and in organisms, might serve not 

 only to unify the living individual into one indivisible whole, but might also 

 imbue him with a distinctiveness which is one of the implied characteristics 

 especially of human individuality. It would therefore satisfy a deeply felt 

 desire of man to be "himself" only, to be unique and endowed with self 

 determination and free will. Yet the investigator must proceed in the study 

 of individuality according to the rules which alone have proven successful so 

 far in all the other fields of science. 



