ABSTRACT
In considering the various aspects of human life, we have necessarily been led to notice a variety of details which may have tended in some degree to obscure the essential aims. It have seeking to urge throughout is that the upward path in human life is the path of co-operative creation. The general fact has been recognized in the Indian caste system, in the work of Plato and Aristotle, and has recently been emphasized, in an instructive, though somewhat bewildering, way by Dr. Rudolf Steiner. The conception of emergent evolution, enables us to think of life, not as a blind struggle for existence, but as a more or less consciously directed effort to achieve the higher values. It seems best to begin with some considerations that are mainly biological, though the definite treatment of these must be left to experts in that department.
