and fuller adjustments to environment 11 



everywhere else. It is this that gives to 

 what we have called guidance or direction 

 its motive and its meaning. 



As to the second question — what are the 

 general characteristics of advancing life?— 

 this is on the whole admirably dealt with 

 in Herbert Spencer's Psychology under the 

 heading General Synthesis. Defining life as 

 the adjustment of internal relations to 

 external relations, he shews how, as evolution 

 progresses, this adjustment extends in range 

 both spatially and temporally; how at the 

 same time it increases in speciality and 

 complexity; how separate adjustments are 

 more and more co-ordinated and unified; 

 and so forth. The interval between the 

 palaeolithic man, whose world was bounded 

 by his river-valley, who knew little of the 

 past and planned less for the future, who 

 lived from hand to mouth content with raw 



