Chapter VI: The Directive Theory of Evolution

Nature’s Power of Response 115

Reinke’s Theory of Dominants 120

Cases of their Action in Evolution 123

Law and Directivity 128

Intelligence and Directivity 130

The Analogy of Social Evolution 131

The Analogy of Language 133

Synthetic Movement of the Cosmic Reason 137

Objections from Imperfect Adaptations and Regressive Forms
Stated 143

Mechanical and Psychic Agencies, how Distinguished 146

Science versus ‘Mysticism’ 150

Reply to Objection from Imperfect Adaptations, etc. 152

Man, the Growing-point of Earthly Life 154

Immanence or Transcendence of the Cosmic Reason? 155

Man’s Relations to the Whole 157

PART II. ETHICS

CHAPTER VII

Law, Free Will, Personality

Free Will and Determinism 161

The Determinist Position 163

The Free Will Position 164

Conditions necessary for Free Will 168

Has the Will an Ethical Bias? 169

Limitations of Free Will 172

Evolution of the Will 174

Free Will and Monism 176

Free Will and Brain-structure 177

Relations of Mind and Matter 186

Immortality 189

CHAPTER VIII

The Ethical Criterion

The Visible and the Invisible Worlds 194

Dualism and Monism 195

Monism and the Moral Law 198

The Hedonistic Basis of Morals 200

The Natural Basis of Morals 203