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whatever we may think about the cause of the 

 connection. 



They who, like myself, see design in organic 

 evolution, will also see in psychogenesis the means 

 by which this design has been carried out. How it 

 has been done is quite beyond our understanding. 

 Have the biophores free power to act ? Or are they 

 obliged to go through certain movements? Do we 

 see the action of intelligent protoplasm scattered 

 broadcast through nature? Or is all a marvellous 

 machine? Each person must answer this question 

 for himself. It is one on which the agnostic attitude 

 may be justified. 



Mr. L. T. Hobhouse, in his " Mind in Evolution," 

 says " Organic development on the whole is pur- 

 posive. We can conceive such a purpose in one of 

 two forms. We may place it within the evolu- 

 tionary process, attributing it to the beings taking 

 part therein ; or we may place it outside the process 

 in a hypothetical Being who contrives the whole 

 movement and shapes it towards the end defined. 

 In the former alternative we are forced to charac- 

 terise the purpose as an unconscious purpose, and 

 this threatens to be a contradiction in terms. At 

 most w r e can say that there is in the earlier stages 

 elements of purpose and understanding, which are 

 gradually blended and fused into coherence. The 

 latter alternative would bring us to the conception of 

 an unconditional creation of the world-order, which 

 can never be accepted by the intelligence without 

 stifling the moral sense. Is there any third possi- 

 bility? (p. 403)." And two pages further on he says, 



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