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imitate nature, we should make, let us say, a thousand 

 pairs of shoes, and destroy all but one pair in order that 

 a good pair may be saved. The misfortunes of life are 

 not the essential things. Organic evolution consists in 

 utilizing the scraps; in reducing the percentage of 

 error by the actual performance of the process of liv- 

 ing and dying; making one in a million, one in a hun- 

 dred, or one in a still smaller number fit to survive 

 by more surely finding and preserving the right way 

 to live. This progress in Tightness can only be at- 

 tained by accumulated improvements in the adminis- 

 tration of the vital processes; improvements in mutual 

 services which insure a larger and larger percentage of 

 survivals by reducing the waste and the liability to 

 error. 



The unbroken continuity of life through untold 

 ages is due to the basic security and the well-ordered 

 life which has been assured to its individuals and to 

 all their subordinate parts. The continuity of life, and 

 its future progress depends on the perpetuation and the 

 improvement of this method of insurance. 



In all phases of life, the liability to errors of in- 

 ternal adjustment, and the liability to uncontrollable 

 accidents from without, is directly proportional to the 

 extent the scaffolding of life and nature has been 

 erected. That is to say, the rate of liability to errors, 

 and to accidents, gradually increases with growth until 

 a point is reached where life becomes impossible, or 

 death inevitable. 



On the other hand, life is insured against these er- 

 rors and accidents inversely to the extent of its prog- 

 ress. All the initial, fundamental processes of life 

 have been so effectively covered by the protective in- 



