BIOLOGICAL CONTROL 



This rule of life applies throughout the 

 whole range of living things, from coral 

 polyps to kings, the directors of industry 

 and finance and the inspired authors of 

 immortal creations in art and letters. 



Thus we see that all living is a creative 

 process. And its value to the organism 

 and to the community in which one lives 

 is measured by the efficiency of the in- 

 ternal controls. Those organisms, in- 

 cluding those persons who are able to 

 adjust themselves to their environments 

 in more diversified ways, to assimilate into 

 their own personal organizations more 

 different kinds of things (material, dy- 

 namic, intellectual, esthetic, or whatever), 

 to exhibit more diversified and appropri- 

 ate behavior in every situation, and to 

 modify their behavior more readily after 

 untoward experiences — such organisms we 

 call higher. They live more and they live 

 better. They are more successful in what 

 Stevenson happily calls '^the continent art 

 of living well." 



Every organism to some extent controls 

 the environment in which he lives, and the 

 pattern of this control of environment 

 through behavior is shaped by the internal 

 organization of the individual, which, in its 



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