44 o MIND IN EVOLUTION CHAP. 



on the one hand no distinction between the worker and his 

 material. It is the material which does the work. On 

 the other hand, the " material " is not " indifferent " to its 

 destiny. It is out of human nature as it is that the 

 conception of the ultimate purpose and destinies of man is 

 evolved, and human nature being what it is, this purpose 

 must appeal to it in the end with compelling force. 



If then self-conscious evolution is like the working out 

 of a human purpose in allowing unlimited license of 

 method, it resembles an organic growth in that its moving 

 principle is within. It resembles an organic growth in 

 that the broad possibilities of development are already 

 determined in the germ, but differs from it in that the 

 actual growth is determined by the conception of the end 

 itself and may be modified as that conception requires. 

 It is therefore an organic growth and something more ; it 

 is a purpose and something more. This we have tried to 

 express by calling it a self-conscious evolution. It should 

 be added that there is one point in which both human 

 purposes and organic growths agree. Both are definitely 

 making by different methods for an ascertained goal. In 

 this they differ from the process of biological evolution, 

 which arrives at a goal without making for it. One may 

 perhaps convey some conception of the difference by an 

 image. Three persons start for a certain place. One 

 does not know the way, but is directed to follow a certain 

 road. Keeping to this road, he arrives safely and speedily 

 unless there should be any unforeseen obstacle, such as a 

 broken bridge, in which case, as he knows no other paths, 

 he is blocked. This is the case of " organic growth." 

 Another, Intelligence, knows where the point is and finds 

 his way there, going by a detour if the direct road is 

 impassable. The third wanders at random,-<but as every- 

 where there are hedges and walls preventing him from 

 getting far out of the way, and as hedges grow up behind 

 him to prevent his return, he gradually arrives by 

 eliminating all possibilities of going anywhere else. This 

 is the evolutionary process. We might vary the image by 

 substituting three companies for three individuals. Of 

 the first company, three or four out of ten would arrive, and 



