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Under its ethical aspects, this correlation appears as a 

 direction of conduct by Will guided by general con- 

 ceptions of the welfare of self, others, or the community, 

 as well as by the code of rules in accordance with which 

 the life of any given society is organised. 



As a result, not only does individual experience (as in 

 the previous stage) modify the general plan of behaviour 

 resting on instinct, but the recorded experience of the race 

 is brought to bear on its hereditary tendencies, engender- 

 ing an explicit conception of the main ends desirable in 

 the life to be lived by man. 



