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WILL AND INDIVIDUALITY. the other of jack-fruit, as representing two different 'Characters' or Kårma-Sariras of An Analogy the two different vegetable organisms. The power of growth and development in the two seeds or their inner natures is of the same kind. And though the external Nature or the environment consisting of earth, water, air, light and so forth is common to both the seeds planted within the bounds of a selected and definite area having soils of equal fertility ; yet for certain characteristic peculiarities latent in each of the stones, each determines, selects, and draws, according to its own constitutional wants, appetites, and desires, peculiar to itself, such nourishment both qualitatively and quantitavely from the common environment as would be contributive to the growth and development of the organism and to the fulfilment of its own wants and desires. This phenomenon of selection by the seed is not a blind adaptation to the environment, but selection by a conscious willing agent having a preferential interest in the thing selected from amidst an infinite diversity of materials and elements in the
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