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of selection as applied to muscular movement does away 

 with all necessity for holding that consciousness even 

 directs brain energy. The need of such direction seems 

 to me to be as artificial as Darwin's principle showed the 

 need of special creation to be for the teleological adapta- 

 tions of the different species. This necessity of supposed 

 directive agency done away in this case as in that, the 

 question of the relation of consciousness to the brain 

 becomes a metaphysical one — just as that of teleology in 

 nature became a metaphysical one — and science can get 

 along without asking it.^ And biological as well as psy- 

 chological science should be glad that it is so. 



We may add in closing that of the three headings of 

 this note only the last (third) is based on matters of per- 

 sonal opinion; the other two rest on Professor Cope's 

 own presuppositions — that of intelligent selection in his 

 sense of the term, and that of the bearing of social hered- 

 ity (which he admits) upon Lamarckism. 



1 See the remarks on this question, below, Chap. IX. § 3. 



