256 INITIATIVE IN EVOLUTION 



Nature in the story, with her wonted coyness betraying the fact 

 that though she is stern she has her tolerant moods ; that she allows 

 her children, even that " insurgent son " who calls himself Homo 

 Sapiens, a genial liberty to frame new reflex -arcs which make for 

 his enjoyment of life in indifferent fields, and that the great neural 

 'process of Facilitation is the leading factor in their constructions and 

 probably also in more deeply-based systems of sensori-motor arcs. 



