168 THE CHILD AND HEREDITY 



It is not observed that this method re-introduces the dis- 

 credited doctrine of separate faculties, and loses "man" 

 in his parts and divisions ; far less is it observed that beauty, 

 truth, and goodness imply each other and cannot thus be 

 held apart. 



But the more consistent idealist postulates the presence 

 of the higher faculties in the lower. He finds sense to be 

 implicit reason, and ordinary knowledge to be implicit 

 science. The progress of knowledge is for him a process 

 of concretion and not of abstraction, of articulation and 

 not of mere generalisation. The higher contains the truth of 

 the lower in a fuller form ; sense is carried up into percep- 

 tion, and perception into thought. And hence the higher js 

 not determined by^the lower^but _ is the fulfilment of its 

 own promise withinjtj and the nisus of the whole process 

 lies in that which is about to be. In a word, he uses the 

 idea of final, not of material cause as his interpreting 

 instrument. 



So far, then, there can be no doubt that this conception 

 of evolution, both in its biological and in its physical 

 applications, contains no threat against the higher life of 

 man. It lifts him above external necessitation by placing 

 the impulse and direction of his evolution within himself. 

 He is not product but producer, not^consequence but cause . 

 He himself is present, although only implicitly, in his 

 antecedents ; and while external conditions stimulate, he 

 is determined to action only by himself. 



But, it will be asked, does not the necessitation remain ? 

 According to this view, are not the future of the child, 

 and his character as man, determined for him? Is not 

 hereditary determination fatal determination ? What can 

 education, or aught else that the physical and social 



