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action subordinated to wide and permanent ends, while both 

 the experience and the purpose are not merely personal 

 but also social. Lastly, the deficiencies and contradictions 

 of the thought-order force on a process of reconstruction 

 by which the underlying factors of heredity, of personal 

 experience, and of social growth which go to the building 

 of consciousness, are themselves brought within conscious- 

 ness. There is a correlation of results with processes or 

 principles. With the aid of these principles it becomes 

 possible to take a comprehensive survey of human develop- 

 ment, tracing our life backward to its ultimate condition, 

 and carrying its aims and efforts forwards to their ultimate 

 meaning and goal, to correlate human purpose as a whole 

 with the conditions of development as a whole. 



