32 Dynamic Evolution 



energy as the immediate parents. The logi- 

 cal results of such a procedure would be to 

 wipe out the doctrine of evolution and re- 

 establish special creation. Even the assump- 

 tion of special creation with as much energy 

 at the beginning as at the end would not 

 solve the problem, because energy normally 

 dissipates, and once dissipated it can be 

 reconcentrated only by work. 



There is but one solution, and that is 

 that the parents themselves must have ac- 

 cumulated by work more energy than they 

 dissipated by idleness, and must have trans- 

 mitted this accumulation to their offspring. 

 But the 2 : 10 trotter has such an extreme 

 excess of energy over and above that of the 

 ordinary animal that his accumulation plus 

 the accumulation of his parents will not equal 

 the possession. To obtain an accumulation 

 equal to the possession, the grandparents 

 must have accumulated more than they per- 

 mitted to dissipate, must have transmitted 

 that accumulation to the parents, and the 

 parents must have added their own accumu- 



