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given on no other terms, nor at any less 

 cost. 



The ability thus to work for weal or woe 

 is no illusion, it is a reality, a responsible 

 power which conscious agents possess; 

 wherefore the resulting fabric is not 

 something preordained and inexorable, 

 though by wide knowledge of character it 

 may be inferred. Nothing is inexorable 

 except the uniform progress of time; the 

 cloth must be woven, but the pattern is 

 not wholly fixed and mechanically cal- 

 culable. Where inorganic matter alone 

 is concerned, there everything is deter- 

 mined. Wherever full consciousness has 

 entered, new powers arise, and the facul- 

 ties and desires of the conscious parts of 

 the scheme have an effect upon the whole. 

 It is not guided from outside but from 

 within, and the guiding power is imma- 

 nent at every instant. Of this guiding 

 power we are a small but not wholly in- 

 significant portion. 



That evolutionary progress is real is 

 a doctrine of profound significance, and 

 our efforts at social betterment are justi- 



