goes on according to certain broad principles of sequence.

This is the Generic Creation --- creation according to genera, or classes, like the "archetypal ideas" of Plato. This creation is governed by a Law of Averages, and the legal maxim De minimis non curat lex --- "the Law cannot trouble about minorities" --- applies to it. This generic law keeps the class going, and slowly advancing, simply as a class; but its can take no notice of individuals as such.

As Tennyson puts it in "In Memoriam", speaking of Nature:

So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life.

This mode of creation reaches its highest level, at any rate in our world, in Genus Homo --- the human race. We also, as a race, are under the Law of Averages. The race continues to exist, but from the moment of birth the individual life is liable to be cut short in a hundred different ways. In producing man, however, Generic Creation has produced a type having a mental and physical constitution capable of perceiving the underlying principle of all creation --- that is, of seeing the relation between the Word and the Law.

We cannot