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Before coming to the more practical aspects of function let me state a philosophical view expressed by Julian Huxley. “The greatest event of the nineteenth century,” he says, “was the revolution caused by man’s sudden stride to mastery over inorganic nature. The twentieth will see another such revolution caused by another step forward in mastery, but this time mastery over organic nature. The revolution is even likely to be greater than its predecessor, for the stuff that will be controlled is the basis of our thoughts and emotions and very existence.”

Professor Huxley’s Conclusions

This alert thinker, moved by his own deductions, comes very near to the functional principle. After noting that the growth of intellect does not wholly explain the conquest over inorganic nature, he proceeds: “An equally important factor has been the increase in harmony, in co-ordination between the parts and between the actions of the organism which, toos is dependent on the structure of the brain. . . . Until we devise a type of society whose traditions and institutions at least make it possible for reason to take the lead in its councils, and one that does not waste the major portion of its energy and resources in external and internal warftareuntil that time we must remember that it is only we ourselves who are responsible if the gifts of power bestowed on us by the labours of the inquiring intellect are wasted, misapplied, or even

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