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philosophy of evolution. He did not profess to un- 

 derstand the causes of variation or to explain the fact 

 of geometrical increase. And yet this expansive and 

 exuberant feature of nature is the one most signifi- 

 cant thing in the whole movement. Darwin's chief 

 interest was in displaying the fact of evolution and 

 proposing a theory of its method. Our interest is 

 more and more turning to evolutionary philosophy. 

 To some recent authors it looks very much like a 

 "grand strategy." Many now speak of "creative 

 evolution." A world-famous biologist has said, "If 

 we personify 'animate nature,' it must at least be as 

 an artist with inexhaustible imaginative resources, with 

 extraordinary mastery of materials." 



Darwin was quite right in saying that the mind as 

 well as the body is the product of evolution, but it 

 does not follow from this that mind has grown out 

 of lower forms of life. It is not implicit in animal 

 behavior. The mind of man Is not something hidden 

 in the simple responses of the lower animals, any 

 more than the modern ocean liner is implicit in the 

 old side-wheel steamboat, or the art of the Renais- 

 sance hidden in the pictographs of the cave dwellers. 

 In both illustrations we know that something has been 

 added; namely, almost Infinite labor, thought, and 

 creative genius. The future of organic evolution is 

 therefore unpredictable, as are also human conduct 

 and social institutions. Only this is sure, there will 

 be progress. 



It would seem, then, that the mind, though defined 

 as the characteristic behavior of a highly complex and 

 highly integrated living organism, has escaped far 



