CHAPTER XI 



THE ORIENTATION OF MENTAL IMAGERY 



TO NATURE-ACTION AS A MEANS TO 



CONSTRUCTIVE CONDUCT 



The Cooperation between Conduct, Cosmic, Organic, and Mental 

 Action The Egoism and Altruism of Mental Life, Learning, and 

 Teaching The Parallelism between Mental and Physical Evolu- 

 tion Mental Imagery as a Self-Constructive Function The Evo- 

 lution of Mental Imagery The Imagination as an Instrument of 

 Conveyance The New Freedom and the New World Basic Con- 

 cepts: Creation, Growth, Obedience, Service, Profit The Tests of 

 Veracity. 



I. The Cooperation Between Conduct, Cosmic, 

 Organic, and Mental Action 



CONFIRMED evolutionists, unlike introspective phil- 

 osophers, prefer to approach their problems from with- 

 out, and, so far as possible, to treat them in a purely 

 objective way. At the very outset, therefore, of any 

 comprehensive treatment of social life, we must 

 clearly recognize that man is one of the more recent 

 products of a unified system of cosmic growth, in which 

 physical, organic, and mental evolution have played 

 and still play their respective roles. We must also 

 recognize that all the agencies of this system, including 

 man, can endure and grow only so far as they rightly 

 conform to one 'another and act in a mutually profitable 

 way. 



Starting with these basic assumptions, analysis of 



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