29'2 .^MAN ANB THE ■WORLD. 



Thus organization Is not a primary fact In the 

 history of Hfe. The unconscious material organiz- 

 ation Is simply the ex-conscious. Our unconsciousness 

 of how we (our wills) control our bodies, gives no 

 support to the view that body and soul are different : 

 we have merely forgotten how we grew our bodies 

 In the long process of Evolution. But as the pro- 

 cess still goes on we can retrace the steps of our 

 past development. Our acts still form our bodies 

 for good and ill. First, they generate habits, and 

 habits gradually become mechanical and uncon- 

 scious. Habits, again, gradually produce organic 

 changes, at first slight changes, it may be, in the 

 development of th^ muscles and the expression of 

 countenance. But In the course of generations 

 these are summed up Into hereditary organization. 

 The only reason why this production of physical 

 changes as the expression of psychical nature Is not 

 more obvious Is, in the first place, -that for reasons 

 already stated (ch. iv. §§ lo, i6), our faculties have 

 not been harmoniously developed, and that the corre- 

 spondence between the different elements of our 

 being is very far from perfect. And moreover, by 

 far the greater part of our nature is given us, and 

 in the course of a single life-time comparatively 

 little can be done towards changing the outer Into 

 conformity with the Inner man. Nevertheless, it 

 may perhaps be suspected that our direct control of 

 our bodily organism, though an obscured. Is not an 

 extinct power, that under favourable circumstances 

 we possess what appears to be a supernatural and 

 is certainly a supernormal power over our bodies, 

 and that this Is the true source of the perennial 

 accounts of miracles of healing and extraordinary^ 

 faculties. 



