540 THE EVOLUTION OF MIND 



morphism on the one hand and false simplicity on the other. 

 Perhaps we should rest satisfied in the meantime with a 

 general cumulative impression. Certainly we should avoid 

 staking any conclusion on particular cases. We must try 

 to refrain from Lo Here! and Lo There! One of the most 

 beautiful things in the world is the dawning of feeling and 

 thinking in a child; it is like the coming of spring. But 

 how impossible it is to punctuate. Similarly we must hesi- 

 tate as to the boundary lines in Animal Evolution between 

 behaviour which can be adequately described physiologically 

 and that which requires the use of subjective terms if we are 

 to do it justice. Perhaps it does not matter very much, for 

 the organism as we know it is a unity; never only body, 

 never only mind. Our knowledge is not sufficient yet to 

 allow us to say, except in a few cases, when it is acting more 

 as a body-mind and when more as a mind-body. But what 

 seems important in our interpretation of Animate Nature 

 is the cumulative evidence that in organisms also there is 

 a flow of inner life, though it be but a slender rill as 

 compared with our full stream. 



There is something to be said, too, if we believe in continu- 

 ity of evolution. Enthralled as many weak or oppressed 

 human lives are, there is ample experience of self-determina- 

 tion, and, after all, the most potent force in the world may be 

 a new idea. Now, inclined as we are to emphasise man's 

 apartness, we feel the extreme improbability of the view that 

 in the animal world, with which he is solidary, mind does 

 not count. In plain words, the apsychic view is outrageous. 



8UMMART. 



As we follow the main line of animal evolution we see behaviour 

 becoming more complicated and masterly, more like our own. There 



