264 ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST 



outer world by reason and experience, they form a 

 power which we can see has been directive, normative 

 in the past, and will continue to be so in the future. 

 It alters with man's development ; but after a first 

 rudimentary phase, its main outlines, its type of 

 organization remain the same, for man's instincts 

 and ideals do not greatly change, and their harmoniza- 

 tion with each other and with experience will gener- 

 ally proceed in the same broad way. Although in 

 a sense this aspect is the smallest, as comprising the 

 smallest physical field, yet in another it is the largest, 

 since man's ideals are in themselves unlimited, non- 

 finite ; and the values involved, to our present type 

 of mind, appear ultimate. This third aspect of God 

 is again historically the offspring of the second, and 

 through the second of the first. 



Matter, life, mind — this is the simplest classifica- 

 tion of phenomena. By means of processes analogous 

 to obtaining a resultant by the parallelogram of 

 forces, we can obtain a resultant of material opera- 

 tions in general, vital operations in general, and 

 mental operations in general, numerous and varied 

 in direction though they be. Life is the link between 

 the other two. Living matter is so definitely one 

 with non-living matter, not at all obviously one with 

 mind ; yet the direction of living matter is obviously 

 similar to that of the direction of mind, not at all 

 obviously one with that of non-living matter. 



