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growths, which is a relation in the first place 

 of simple symmetry as between themselves, is 

 always accompanied by another relation, in the 

 second place, of correspondence or fitness as 

 between these growths and external conditions. 

 An organism which is developed unsymmetri- 

 cally — unequally — would be not only ugly in 

 its form, but it would be maimed and imperfect 

 in its functions. Here, then, we see one kind, 

 and one idea of Correlation rising above another. 

 Two growths might be correlated as regards 

 each other, and might yet be wanting in any cor- 

 responding correlation of fitness and of function 

 towards outward things. But the first of these 

 two kinds of correlation would be useless with- 

 out the last. And this last is obviously the 

 higher and more complex Correlation of the two. 

 It is higher, not only in the sense of being more 

 complex, but as involving an idea which lifts us 

 at once from a lower to a higher region of thought. 

 Growths correlated as between each other accord- 

 ing to mere symmetry of arrangement suggest 

 nothing, except the work of Forces with inherent 

 Polarity of action. But growths correlated with 



