18 The recapitulatory process briefer 



Let us suppose our imaginary individual, 

 when he had proceeded but a little way in 

 the slow and arduous fashion of a pioneer, 

 to have been set back to the beginning once 

 more, still however retaining the memory of 

 Ms former experiences. " We may be sure," 

 as I have said elsewhere, " that in that case 

 he would make good the ground lost in much 

 less time than he required at first, and also 

 without following all the windings of the 

 tentative route into which his previous in- 

 experience had led him : his route the second 

 time would be routine^." So, for example, a 

 man, who had gradually by various improve- 

 ments adapted a house or a machine to his 

 purposes, would proceed, if either by some 

 accident was destroyed. Let us again sup- 

 pose that after a while, when a still farther 

 advance had been achieved, our imaginary 



1 The Realm of Ends, 2nd edn, 1912, p. 209. 



