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In higher forms voh'tion can be maintained for longer 

 and longer intervals, can attain greater intensity, and 

 can fix itself upon ever more and more distant objects. 

 With depth of feeling comes also differentiation, so 

 that finally we find in ourselves the possibility of 

 organizing various blends of the simple emotions into 

 the compound emotional forms such as reverence 

 and admiration, called sentiments by M'Dougall. 



Biologically speaking, therefore, the direction 

 observable in mental evolution is again towards 

 increased control and increased independence ; by 

 mental and cerebral improvement there is introduced 

 a greater accuracy and a greater range of control, 

 as well as better adjustment between organisms and 

 environment, than would be otherwise possible to 

 the same bodily organs. 



The direction of life may therefore be roughly 

 summed up in the two words * more life ' — more both 

 in quantity (have not both land and air been colonized 

 during evolution ?) and also in quality. More matter 

 has been stolen from the lifeless and embodied in the 

 living ; and the living begins to be less helpless in 

 face of the lifeless. 



The direction of living matter is thus in many ways 

 opposed to the direction to be seen in inorganic 

 matter ; yet not only has the organic arisen from the 

 inorganic, but its direction continues one direction 

 already traceable before the appearance of life.^ 

 1 See Danysz, '21. 



