EVOLUTION THE MASTER-KEY 



the moral anarchy which is supposed to be a neces 

 sary consequence of its acceptance, has yet 



observed. 



Furthermore, it is emphatically the evolutionary 

 treatment of the will, and the searching light : 

 has thrown on the springs of conduct, that has 

 rescued the whole subject from the verbal morass 

 of so many generations and has placed it upon 

 the rock of positive facts. 



Let us now look at some of the questions in 

 volved. 



In the first place, the post - Spencenan writer 

 cannot treat of man s will as if it had sprung, 

 like Minerva, fully armed from the head of Jove^ 

 For now exactly half a century such a method 

 of treatment has been obsolete. Neither will nor 

 any other aspect of mind can be treated as if tt 

 adult Caucasian consciousness were an immediate 

 creation, of whose genesis the first and last wor. 

 has been said in a reference to a Creator or a First 

 Cause. Your will and mine are evolved in us as 

 individuals from the will of the child, from 1 

 springs of action in infancy and before it. Further 

 more, your will is a product of racial as well as 

 of individual evolution. It does not now suffice 

 to declare, with Descartes, that the lower animals 

 are automata: else the qualifying word &quot;human 

 in the title of this chapter were superfluous. 

 &quot; ape and tiger,&quot; not yet dead in us, had conscious 

 ness and volition; nor can ours be explained with 

 out reference to theirs. Thus, whereas prior to the 



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