What is inexorable in God is valuation as an aim towards 'order'. As we pass to the inorganic world, causation never for a moment seems to lose its grip. What is lost is originativeness, and any evidence of immediate absorption in the present. So far as we can see, inorganic entities are vehicles for receiving, for storing in a napkin, and for restoring without loss or gain. The paradox which wrecks so many promising theories of education is that the training which produces skill is so very apt to stifle imaginative zest.
Skill demands repetition, and imaginative zest is tinged with impulse.
Up to a certain point each gain in skill opens new paths for the imagination. But in each individual, formal training has its limit of usefulness. A vBeyond that limits, there is degeneration. A R B It is by reason of the body, with its miracle of order, that the treasures of the past environment are poured into the living occasion. The final percipient route of occasions is perhaps some thread of happen- ings wandering in 'empty' space amid the interstices of the brain.