1428 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



Pentelicus, but from the simple dances of the AustraHans, from the 

 flower-crowned Hawaiian maidens of Cook's Voyage, and again from 

 the varied moods of the songs and tales of Highland Ceilidhs. 

 Everywhere then we may find or recall them : they are the nine-fold 

 Soul of Life. 



Still it is the Greeks, above all other children of men, and despite 

 all their faults, who have been most complete exemplars; for all 

 Nine Muses came most fully to them. Hence theirs not only the 

 fullest chord of the Inner Life, emotional, intelJectual, imaginative, 

 as in Plato perhaps above all; yet he only first among peers. For 

 Hellas was creative at once of morals and philosophy, of esthetics 

 and logic, and of the beginnings of every one of our modern sciences ; 

 and also in every way giving fresh, rich and full expression of all 

 their nine-fold complex in the active life of Deed. Thus it was that 

 beyond town and school, beyond even the retreat, or porch, or 

 symposium of thought, the Greeks realised the City — and least 

 imperfectly of all men — the City founded on sound agriculture and 

 craftsmanship, and this rising to initiative and perfection in each 

 and all of the material arts — architecture, sculpture, painting. So, 

 too, their life blossomed into the dramatic arts— music in all its 

 moods, with dance no less fuUy expressive, drama to this day 

 supreme. All because founded in comprehensive thought; and 

 thence realised in citizenship. 



The application of the present method to other cultures, and 

 through West and East alike, will be found to yield no less vital 

 interpretations. 



To go so far beyond everyday biology and psychology has been 

 necessary, even were it only to meet Wallace's difficulty; moreover, 

 if this be a true outline of the evolutionary process in nature's 

 highest species, why and how should we stop short ? 



And just as, on the highest levels of animal social evolution, we 

 have cited suggestions and premonitions of the above results: so 

 now we may look further into such developments. Maeterlinck's 

 interpretations of his bees can hardly but have seemed going rather 

 too far for sober natural history and its comparative psychology: 

 yet we may look for an interpretation of the bee-folk and their ways 

 going further still, in terms of this whole life-theory. This was, indeed, 

 worked out in detail many years ago (for this theory has been long 

 considered) by our late friend. Miss J. W. Home, one of those 

 admirable psychologist-teachers whose sympathetic insight and 

 intuition surpass those of most men, if not all. The general corre- 

 spondence with our above outline of human evolution at its highest 

 was broadly clear. If so, may not this whole theory and present- 

 ment of life's process and progress be applied more extensively, 

 in both directions? — i.e. (i) backwards, into simpler life, and 



