ORGANIC REGULATION 117 
a mere Juggernaut. We have seen, however, that 
organisms are not machines, and with the machine 
theory the argument, such as it was, for special crea- 
tion disappears. Biology leads us to the conception, not 
of an external Creator, but of an order immanent in 
the natural world. This order is, however, conceived 
as blind and unconscious, and cannot, so conceived, 
be identified with what we have learnt to understand 
as God. 
It is not from the data of biology, and still more 
clearly not from those of the physical sciences, that 
we derive our conception of God, but from the facts 
of knowing and consciously doing which we observe 
in ourselves and our fellow men as conscious person- 
alities. In knowledge the mind extends itself over 
our whole universe, so that what exists for us exists 
as known, however imperfectly, and as a sphere of 
our activities, however imperfect these activities may 
be. But we find that neither knowledge nor conscious 
activity in general is the mere knowledge or activity of 
individual men. Just as the behaviour of the cells in 
a compound organism is unintelligible if they are con- 
sidered one by one, apart from their relations to the 
whole organism, so the acquisition of knowledge and 
conscious activity in general, are unintelligible from 
the point of view of the individual man. We can 
endeavour to picture to ourselves a man who would 
be entirely self-centred—who would be a God to him- 
self ; but the attempt ends in failure. It is the percep- 
tion that in us as conscious personalities a Reality 
