38o The Morality of Nature 



volition of a reasoning intelligence; and in the second from 

 instinctive reliance upon the reasoning intelligence of a 

 leader, to a judgment by the reasoning intelligence of the 

 performer. But the idea, which will at times arise, that 

 liberty means conduct uncontrolled, is a mere aberration of 

 impulse. It is one of those happenings which make it seem 

 that variation is accidental, because it is a variation which 

 frequently appears, in spite of the repeated proof that it is 

 inevitably self -corrective. Perhaps its recurrence is due to 

 the fact that the remedy applied by nature is not usually a 

 cure or palliation, but extirpation. 



