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ration, but shall be the slower the nearer that purposed configuration is to the instantaneous configuration. Very stupid animals might so move under an impulse to get near to one another. The final result will now be indefinitely approached no matter how the initial circumstances may be varied, or what perturbations may come, the only possible effect of such variations being that it may take longer or less time to work out the resulting indefinite approach toa predetermined configuration. If we suppose the governing mind to have any degree of intelligence above the very lowest, the time required for the attainment of any close approximation to the final configuration will be abridged by the instantaneous motions being determined not entirely by contemporaneous instantaneous configurations, but also by those that are to come about, or that would come about if the instantaneous motions were to be other than they are.

Here it may be as well as not to interject the remark that the 'quasi' of the term 'quasi-purpose' is intended