INTELLIGENCE, POWER, 



These power-formula values place Equipoise on a higher 

 plane of intelligence, power, and personality than that of 

 the ass. But the ratios of the rest of the energy system to 

 body weight place the ass in the low-energy group, away 

 from the rushing and pursuing canivores. 



Where is such a habitat? In the desert and in the high 

 steppes there are many high-strung herbivores and high- 

 strung carnivores, such as mountain sheep, mountain goats, 

 mountain lions, wolves, and desert lions. Where, then, was 

 the ass ? 



There remain two alternatives: first, the high steppes, or 

 a desert so barren that the ass alone could find as low a 

 sustenance level as the cold-blooded animals. But no other 

 warm-blooded animal is known to live at such a low sus- 

 tenance level. Apparently the ass stems back to neither the 

 cold steppes nor the barren desert. 



But this leaves the ass without a family tree. The second 

 alternative is that man found the ass when the ass was 

 highly energized, when man himself had a difficult problem 

 of survival, and that by the joining of forces through a sort 

 of biologic symbiosis, the greater intelligence of man and 

 the greater burden-bearing power of the ass profited both 

 man and ass. 



In the absence of facts, let us suppose that struggling 

 man and the struggling ass found each other on the high 



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