Heredity and memory / by James Ward.

  • James Ward
Date:
1913
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Credit: Heredity and memory / by James Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    case of life, we are seeking to interpret the meaning of a continuous series we must start where that meaning is clearest, where it is best known and most definite, not where it is least known and most inchoate. Working in this fashion from ourselves downward, what then, we may now ask, do we find as the irreducible minimum which all life implies; and what are the most general characteristics that mark every advance from lower forms to higher ? To the first question the answer, I trust, may here suffice that life everywhere implies an individual and an environment. To changes in this environ- ment the individual’s behaviour is, or tends . / to be, so adjusted as to secure its well-being. For—it is worth remarking by the way— throughout the realm of life the category of value, which such terms as well-being and ill-being imply, is relevant, though irrelevant
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