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is not too much to hope that from these a higher proportion of 

 genius will emerge than from the schools of good form and con- 

 ventional instruction. Until these schools have fully awakened to 

 such vital experiences, and give these even better, and so produce 

 youth no longer left unemployed, and too often all but unemploy- 

 able, but ready to go anywhere and do anything, according to the 

 lights they have thus reached, and the worthy tasks of life they 

 have been helped to see. 



Note again corresponding beginnings on the psychological side, 

 already approaching record-making and breaking also. The growth of 

 "Correspondence Schools", as of "Pelmanism", for single example, 

 is for us of the universities to look into, as indeed in France is now 

 happening, and with noteworthy advance. From Montessorian and 

 further methods of developing and training the senses, with well- 

 chosen and varied occupational experiences, and these leading to 

 clearer ideation, there also comes vitally social experience; leading 

 no longer to narrowed individualism, but through social service to 

 socian individualities. Also there is in progress here and there a 

 rational organisation of knowledge; and even a command of its 

 heritage, as up to its universal and usable bibliography; hence such 

 movements must soon involve the substantial advance of higher 

 education. And this not only through the charting and re- unification 

 of the specialisms of knowledge, as from concrete details to com- 

 prehensive and graphic unification of these, but with corresponding 

 intellectual command of them as well, and thus aiding fuller effi- 

 ciency and fresh applications. For an example, see how the principles 

 of evolution, in its widest sense, are applicable broadly alike through- 

 out inorganic and organic nature and in the world oi man as well; 

 as from crafts to arts, from languages to literatures, and from 

 manners and customs to bettered laws, and even to morals, with 

 its ideals inspiring the whole. 



The real sense in which all admit that we moderns surpass the 

 ancients — not necessarily in sheer native powers, for which we 

 have no evidence, but in command of heritages in some ways 

 beyond theirs — may thus, as it is developed and diffused, evoke 

 a far larger proportion of super-normal abilities and achievements. 

 Einstein has never claimed superior natural powers to Newton's; 

 but there is no doubt that he has surpassed him; and in the 

 thoroughgoing fermentation of all the mathematico-physical 

 sciences now in progress, an amazing constellation of productive 

 genius has been manifesting itself, indeed year by year. 



Such examples might be multiplied, and from many other fields 

 of thought and action. So that as evolutionists pass from their many 

 and long preliminary tasks, of inquiries into Origins, human and 

 other, and set out towards the discernment of evolutionary Ten- 

 dencies as actually manifesting themselves, albeit with too little 



