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

 interpretation of Roiix' '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 ftmctional 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 in which a state of consciousness ptays the 

 selecting role'^ (7, 8, 9, 11, 12). It would be ambiguous 

 if used for cases where natural selection operates on 

 mental and social variations (5, 6, 10), 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 may be 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 personal choice, 

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

 ological Selection ' (13). Furthermore, Darwin's ' Artificial 



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

 sciousness, giving the difference (both in means and result) seen between 

 ' Artificial ' (7) and ' Sexual ' (9) selection. Ward's suggestion of the phrase 



* subjective selection ' {i.e., by consciousness) in antithesis to natural selection 

 {Encydopcedia Britannica, 9th ed., Art. * Psychology '), was earher. 



- Lloyd Morgan, Habit and Instinct, pp. 219, 271. 



3 The bird * selects ' (sexually) for the sake of the experience, and it is a sec- 

 ondary result that she is also thus * selected ' for mating with the male and so for 

 continuing his attractive characters with her own characters in the offspring. 



