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to imply action contrary to, the latter action 

 along, the line of least resistance. The 

 processes of the one order build up : those 

 of the other level down. The one order 

 implies that direction, in the sense of aim or 

 end, which we associate with mind as sensitive 

 and purposive; the other that indifference 

 which we associate with matter as lifeless 

 and inert. 



Of such guidance or direction — I would 

 ask you next to note — we have immediate 

 experience only in the case of our own 

 activity, as in building a house or organising 

 a business. It may well seem rash therefore 

 to attribute such processes as the formation 

 of chlorophyll in a blade of grass or of albu- 

 men in a grain of com to guidance in this 

 sense. But at all events they are processes 

 pertaining exclusively to living organisms, 

 and found nowhere else. If these processes 



