406 MIND IN EVOLUTION CHAP. 



Conduct is adjusted to meet the requirements of self or 

 others as Persons, of Society as an abiding structure, or 

 Morality as a system of universal rules. In fine, the 

 correlation is now between the permanent and universal 

 in experience on the one hand, and broad purposes of 

 life or general standards of conduct on the other. 



Though the part played by experience and thought 

 operating on experience is so greatly increased, it must 

 not be supposed that the instinctive basis of action has 

 disappeared. On the contrary, experience and the use 

 made of it are determined in the first place by the 

 inherited structure. The same fundamental conditions 

 are at the root of the ideals of life, and largely even of 

 the theories of reality which emerge in this stage. Yet 

 at all points, in a manner which we do not in this work 

 seek to determine in detail, instinct is now infused with 

 experience, if in experience we include tradition. The 

 nature of man's ends can now no more be called purely in- 

 stinctive than the means whereby he learns to achieve them. 



From the ethical point of view, we note, first, the 

 emergence of Will as something more than a balancing of 

 Desires more, because it expresses the personality as a 

 whole which now for the first time has a comprehensive 

 end or scheme of life to guide it. As desire is transformed 

 into will, so sympathy is transformed into regard for the 

 personality of others, and the social impulses of the 

 previous stage pass into an ordered conception of social 

 life and its duties, with a felt obligation of its own that 

 is independent of passing impulse. Conduct is standardised, 

 and becomes explicit morality. 



To sum up : the work of intelligence in this stage is 

 the correlation of the elements of affinity pervading and 

 connecting masses of diverse experience. 



The distinctive conscious function involved is the con- 

 ception wherein such an element being distinguished from 

 any given experience becomes a medium of reference to 

 bodies of experience. Correlation through this function is 

 comparable with the completed syllogism with explicit 

 Major Premiss, and comparing it with the preceding 

 stage, we see that the pervading identity which was there 



