280 The Morality of Nature 



although there may be some small element of evolution 

 superimposed upon it. Evolution is always and inevitably 

 new because it always adds. It is the product of what was 

 new yesterday into what is newer today; and its tomorrow 

 is never determined until that morrow comes. It seeks fit- 

 ness for the future only by grasping fitness in the present; 

 and the fitness arrives usually because the future comes re- 

 lated to the present just as the present is related to the past. 

 Such a conception of the purposes of higher conduct leads 

 to a conception of a scheme or system whose laws are as far 

 and long reaching as the life they regulate; that is to say 

 potentially immortal ; and less only than the infinite. 



