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<b><font size="4">An
Evolutionary Problem</font></b></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>THE London <I>Times Literary Supplement </I>(July <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">27,
</FONT>1946), in the course of a critical estimate of Bernard Shaw,
writes:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;Mr. Shaw pats Lamarck on the back and accepts his
theory that 'living organisms change because they want to'.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>If you have no eyes and want to see and keep trying to
see, you will finally get eyes. If, like a mole or a subterranean
fish, you have eyes and don't want to see, you will lose your eyes.
If you like eating the tender tops of trees enough to make you
concentrate all your energies on the stretching of your neck, you
will eventually get a long neck like the giraffe.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But the metaphysics here are surely false. If a species
has no eyes, has never possessed eyes, is unconscious of sight, or of
the fact that there are sights to be seen, is unaware of any
necessity for sight, how can that species desire sight or will itself
into the possession of eyes? We can only will what we need.&quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I am afraid the metaphysics here found fault with is not
surely false, it is the critic's appreciation that is at fault. The
metaphysics is perhaps somewhat too physical in its imagery and
terminology, that is to say, graphic in the Shavian manner, but the
matter seems to us quite all right. What the critic fails to
understand is that it is not the conscious idea in the mind that
brings about its concrete realisation. What is there at the outset in
the evolutionary urge is a life-force, blind, no doubt in the usual
sense, but driving towards greater expression and articulation,
towards a more and more conscious and clear perception of ends and
means. Thus, for example,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>growth simply means a gradual enlargement of that form –
but that there is a pattern of ultimate particles – vital quanta –
a rhythm and vibration of life energy, that is the origin, the formal
and efficient cause, of the material form. <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">Deeper
</FONT>still, behind the blind instinctive urge of life, the
unconsciousness that is the inertia of matter, there is a
consciousness, a vision, a supernal self-conscious energy that
inspires, guides, fashions the whole evolutionary scheme in the large
<FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">as </FONT>well as in all
details.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 256</FONT>
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