Foresight is indispensable for action. Now action for any organism of the animal kingdom is an absolute necessity. Surrounded by hostile nature it must act, it must foresee, if it wishes to live. "All life, all action," says Fouillée, "is a conscious or an unconscious divining. Divine or you will be devoured."

Translated by Kate Loewenberg, Identity & Reality, Chapter I (p. 22), George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1930