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of purposive progress does not exist for it. None the less 

 the unity itself does exist; only it exists for personal 

 beings alone for God and for us. 



The purpose is there; we see it in the adaptation of 

 the race, we see it in the race's evolution ; we see it in the 

 close correlation between race and race of living things 

 the interdependencies of organised existence. God 

 sees it too, with far clearer sight. The approximately 

 closed system which is characteristic of the appear- 

 ance we call the material universe, as well as the unity 

 and solidarity that make the organic world, before 

 the emergence of self-consciousness, an almost closed 

 system, as well as the smaller and smaller units that 

 compose it, are alike the expression of the plan or pur- 

 pose of a Person ; the plan or purpose of God's Personal 

 activity. All unity, all solidarity, all appearance of 

 system that we know, is the expression of personal 

 activity. 



Then human personality emerges, and is itself an 

 evident unity, whose activities again, viewed as a whole, 

 tend to form a nearly closed system once more. What 

 is the significance of this constant recurrence of sys- 

 tems? Should we be far wrong in saying that they 

 simply express the solidarity of fellowship that they 

 reflect the very Svva/jus of tcoiv<ovLa? In view of the 

 fact that all solidarity in every form in which it is known 

 to us as human beings is the impress of personality; in 

 view of the fact that we are driven to regard God as 

 Personal, and that solidarity appears in the unselfcon- 

 scious world we call His Creation; in view of the con- 

 ception of the nature of creative purpose we have been 

 driven to adopt ; I do not think that we can come to any 

 other conclusion. 



The emergence of personality in the evolutionary pro- 

 cess is thus seen under the guise of recognition of purpose 

 both the purpose of the self-activities and the purpose 



