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rising in the smith a new personal energy source through which many persons 

 are constrained to act as one in the scheme of livelihood. The new source 

 of biodynamical strength is not the potential energy of foodstuffs absorbed 

 by an industrial mechanism to maintain a physical body, but is of thermo- 

 dynamical origin with the energy absorbed by an industrial mechanism to 

 maintain a spiritual body. I think that not only do all the essentials of an 

 organism here obtain, but that the position and nature of the nucleus are 

 also made clear. The biodynamical principles here involved may, as in 

 equation (i), therefore be written : 



P.Ei = K.Ei (5). 



By analogy with (2) and (3) we also have : 



P.Ej = K.Ej + L.Pj (6), 



and P.E, = K.Ej + I.Ej (7)- 



Equation (5) represents the minimum activity of the organism apart from 

 any form of progress. Equation (6) represents the operative system by 

 which the organism is perpetuated. This action — ^simply that of being 

 " born again " — was once a rudimentary scheme of apprenticeship and 

 involved the essential elements of industrial differentiation and social inte- 

 gration. Equation (7) represents in some manner the distribution of 

 energy within the higher scheme of life of which man is a unit. I do not 

 pretend to interpret the inner meaning of this ; suffice to say that on a 

 previous occasion a similar biodynamical state, represented by equation (3), 

 was the basis for a new burst of life of an order represented by equation (4). 

 With the organic advancement of man since he entered the state represented 

 by equation (3), the simple scheme of apprenticeship has become the more 

 elaborate scheme of education in which the several functions — differentiation 

 and integration — demanded more specialised attention. These spheres, 

 although they are the operative elements in the sphere of education, have 

 now drifted far asunder, with education, almost in the nature of an abstract 

 force, hovering somewhere amongst them. The unification of these elements 

 — craftsmanship and unified control — within the sphere of education is a 

 sociological necessity. The same thing might read : the unification of 

 industry and government within the sphere of recapitulation is a biological 

 necessity. 



The advance of life to a new plane, as represented by equation (7), has 

 been the cause of much embarrassment to man. This seems to be due to 

 the temporarily unmanageable condition set up by a shift of the centre of 

 the energy system from the finite to the infinite. And, I suppose, as a pro- 

 cess in the life scheme leading up to this great change, the division of labour 

 amongst the cells of any living creature was always, for a time, an embarrass- 

 ment to the personal organisation of the animal. But why, with the animal 

 stage overcome and the advance made with apparent safety on to a new 

 and a higher plane, should there be any organic embarrassment ? For 

 this reason: an organism is governed by a consciousness, which means a 

 personal element. In a snail it is the snail ; in a horse the horse ; but there 

 was a time, represented by the earlier stages of equation (3) respecting these 

 animals, when the full statement of the consciousness could not have been 

 thus easily expressed. And what is the personal element in our new 

 organism ? The answer is in the future. Our present biodynamical position 

 appears to be something arising out of equation (7), which is to that equation 

 as equation (4) is to equation (3). The birth of a new element of life appears 

 to be imminent ; beyond that I can say nothing ; these matters take their 

 own course. This only do I know : the biodynamical situation is, as it 

 always was, inseparable from the industrial situation, and we can make that 

 what we will. 



