ABSTRACT
The analogy extends to facts of propagation. A single cell of animal may transmit and perpetuate the organization of whole animal; and a single unit of the orchestra may transmit its organization, perhaps with variations or mutations that give scope for improvement of organization through natural selection, a true emergent evolution. This analogy points the way to the solution of another great difficulty that is widely felt to stand in way of a teleological view of such processes as morphogenesis. It is said: people admit that the conscious activities of men seem to be teleological; but no man consciously directs the growth and working of his bodily organs; such processes seem to go on quite unconsciously. The position is that people recognize a realm of teleological mental events and a realm of physical events that seem to be purely mechanistic; and in between these two realms in an uncertain status are all the organic processes that are not obviously mental.
