Selections and Selection 167 



'Intra-selection' (4) was directly applied by him to his 

 interpretation of Roux' 'Struggle,' Delage's phrase is not 

 likely to have currency as a substitute for Intra-selection. 

 As 'Functional Selection ' (5) is a special means of motor 

 accommodation, it is additional (and in a sense subordi- 

 nate) to Intra-selection, since it has a functional reference. 

 7, 8, 9. A separate heading might be given to Professor 

 Lloyd' Morgan's phrase 'Conscious Selection,' but it will 

 be seen that, as he uses it, i.e., in broad antithesis to 

 ' Natural Selection,' it really includes all those special 

 forms of selection \xvvi\nAa state cf consciousness plays the 

 selecting role- (7, 8, 9, ". ^2). It would be ambiguous 

 if used for cases where natural selection operates on 

 mental and social variations (5, 6, lO), since it might 

 then mean the survival of the conscious; and even when 

 applicable, as in sexual selection (9),^ with respect to the 

 'means' of the selection, it maybe ambiguous with respect 

 to the • result ' of the selection. This last ambiguity, which 

 is brought out in the table (8, 9),^ makes it desirable to 

 confine the phrase ' Conscious Selection' (if used at all) to 

 cases which result in continuance of what is desirable 

 for consciousness or thought. ' Personal Selection is 

 suggested (8) for selection by human persona choice, 

 analogous to Sexual Selection (9) and to Romanes ' Physi- 

 ological Selection ' (. 3). Furthermore. Darwin's ' Artificial 



1 This indeed, is still liable to the question as to whose U the slate of con- 

 "n ,ivin,' the a.«e.ence (hoth^in "eans and .es.U) seen b.^n 



scions tie ss. 



' Ai 

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Artificial • (7) and ' Sexual' (9) selection. Ward's suggestion of he ph ase 

 bee sel ction' («., by consciousness) in antithesis to natural seiect.on 



DjcLLivc 3 V ., 1 A„^ <T)c„^v,r^lAav'^ was earlier. 



.subjecuve.eicc.... ^-:" - , , Art ' Psvcholo-y ') was earlier. 

 (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed., Art. isycnoio^y ;. 



2 Llovd Morgan, Habit and Instinct, pp. 219, 271. 



8 The bird « sele ts ' (sexually) for the sake of the experience, and it is a sec- 



