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CHAPTER XVI 



SYSTEMATIC THOUGHT 



i. In the three stages examined, the organisation of life becomes 

 constantly more comprehensive, but in the highest remains very 

 fragmentary. 2. Completeness of system is first made a direct 

 object by science. 3. But the study of principles and methods leads 

 back to philosophy, which by evaluating the work of the mind (4) 

 makes possible a true systematisation of the sciences. Thus syste- 

 matic thought deals with the conditions on which less developed 

 thought rests. 5. The goal of the whole development is the 

 appreciation by the Mind of the conditions and possibilities of its 

 own growth, z.*?., the completed "organisation" of life. 6. This 

 organisation implies an ethical development in which the principle ot 

 the unity of the species has overcome that of individual self- 

 assertion. Both principles are at work in the animal world (7) and 

 their interaction explains the inconsistencies of ordinary morals, 

 (8) which is fostered by the organisation of the race into a vast num- 

 ber of groups competing in a variety of ways. 9. As against this 

 organisation, humanitarianism, imperfectly incorporated in the 

 . higher religions, stands for the unity of the race (10) and for its 

 development, which it makes the supreme object of human effort, 

 and the touchstone of recognised institutions and codes, u. Thus 

 the ethical and intellectual development converge on the same point 

 the organisation of the life of the race through knowledge of its 

 conditions. 12. From this point the development of mind becomes 

 intelligent and self-determined Pages 364394 



CHAPTER XVII 



SUMMARY OF THE STAGES OF CORRELATION 



I. Orthogenic evolution consists in a development of organisation cul- 

 minating in the determination of its own development by the race. 



2. Summary of the stages by which out of the struggle for existence 

 this organisation is step by step elaborated . . . . Pages 395412 



CHAPTER XVIII 



ORGANISATION, CONFLICT AND EVOLUTION 



I. Orthogenic evolution consists in the rise of higher organisation the 

 higher organisation being that in which unity is more complete and 

 scope greater. 2. The basis of the process is an improved physical 

 organisation on which the higher, intelligent organisation rests. 



3. Organisation is the most efficient means of maintaining life, (4) 

 and this is true of the special forms of organisation by Intelligence 

 and social co-operation. 5. Fundamental antithesis between the 

 organisation of life and the struggle for existence. 6. With the 

 growth of organisation comes a modification of plan, substituting 

 pleasure, (7) and later happiness for bare existence as the end of 

 action. 8. Effort towards a higher development is made possible by 

 a mitigation of the struggle for existence, (9) and finally becomes the 

 explicit end upon which the whole plan of organisation is seen to 

 rest Pages 413 435 



