222 MAN, THE ANIMAL 



Such a study as this aims to bring out the 

 significant fact that all living things are definitely 

 organized and that the term organism usually ap- 

 plied to them has an important meaning. This 

 organization appears to have come into existence 

 with the first form of living protoplasm and re- 

 mained as the most conspicuous feature of all 

 subsequent forms of life. When the molecules of 

 protein took on the protoplasmic pattern a new 

 organization was created that has always re- 

 mained distinct and yet an intimate part of the 

 material universe. 



This knowledge which man has gradually ac- 

 cumulated through long years of study does enable 

 him to direct his affairs more Intelligently than 

 his ancestors who found their way by experimenta- 

 tion. He now understands that he cannot ignore 

 the basal laws of the material universe nor those 

 that regulate his own being but that he can antici- 

 pate these laws and by the proper utilization of 

 force rise above them as In the aeroplane where 

 he employs a force stronger than gravity. 



But In all of this wonderful progress man has 

 never been able to free himself from his animal 

 relations. In all of the progress of the future, he 

 will have to give due heed to these same factors. 

 It would seem as If the wisest course were to 

 properly understand just what limitations Nature 



