PREFACE XI 



is outside most people's orbit ; and if it is forced upon 

 their notice, they as often as not find it in some way 

 immoral 



Closely connected with this, in a sense its corollary, 

 we have the fact that ninety-nine people out of a 

 hundred are concerned with getting a living rather 

 than with living, and that if for any reason they are 

 liberated from this necessity, they generally have 

 not the remotest idea how to employ their time 

 with either pleasure or profit to themselves or to 

 others. 



There are two ways of living : a man may be casual 

 and simply exist, or constructive and deliberately try 

 to do something with his life. The constructive 

 idea implies constructiveness not only about one's 

 own life, but about that of society, and the future 

 possibilities of humanity. 



In pre-human evolution, the blind chances of 

 variation and the blind sifting of natural selection 

 have directed the course of evolution and of progress. 

 It is on survival and the production of offspring that 

 the process has hinged ; the machinery is in reality 

 blind, but these emerge as its apparent ends or purposes. 

 The realization of ever higher potentialities of living 

 substance has happened, but only as a secondary 

 result and slow by-product of the main process. 



In human evolution up till the present, the apparent 



