ABSTRACT
Evolution of conduct widens the aggregate of actions while conducing to elongation of it. And in proportion as evolution of the conduct subserving individual life is high, implying high organization, there must previously have been a highly evolved conduct subserving nurture of the young. The limit of evolution can be reached by conduct only in permanently peaceful societies. The conduct is constituted of actions so little adjusted to ends, that life continues only as long as the accidents of the environment are favorable. Race-maintaining conduct, like self-maintaining conduct, arises gradually out of that which cannot be called conduct: adjusted actions are preceded by unadjusted ones. Where, as among certain fish, the male keeps guard over the eggs, driving, away intruders, there is an additional adjustment of acts to ends; and the applicability of the name conduct is more decided. Death by starvation from inability to catch prey, shows a falling short of conduct from its ideal.
