562 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. 



limit, there came the answer that they must end in equili- 

 brium. That continual division and subdivision of forces, 

 which changes the uniform into the multiform and the 

 multiform into the more multiform, is a process by which 

 forces are perpetually dissipated; and dissipation of them, 

 continuing as long as there remain any forces unbalanced 

 by opposing forces, must end in rest. It was shown that 

 when, as happens in aggregates of various orders, many 

 movements are going on together, the earlier dispersion 

 of the smaller and more resisted movements, establishes 

 moving equilibria of different kinds: forming transitional 

 stages on the way to complete equilibrium. And further 

 inquiry made it apparent that for the same reason, these 

 moving equilibria have certain self -conserving powers; 

 shown in the neutralization of perturbations, and the ad- 

 justment to new conditions. This general principle of 

 equilibration, like the preceding general principles, was 

 •traced throughout all forms of Evolution — astronomic, 

 geologic, biologic, mental and social. And our concluding 

 inference was, that the penultimate stage of equilibration, in 

 which the extremest multiformity and most complex mov- 

 ing equilibrium are established, must be one implying the 

 highest conceivable state of humanity. 



But the fact which it here chiefly concerns us to remem- 

 ber, is that each of these laws of the re-distribution of Mat- 

 ter and Motion, was found to be a derivative law — a law de- 

 ducible from the fundamental law. The Persistence of 

 Force being granted, there follow as inevitable inferences 

 " The Instability of the Homogeneous " and " The Multi- 

 plication of Effects; " while " Segregation" and " Equili- 

 bration " also become corollaries. And thus discovering 

 that the processes of change formulated under these titles 

 are so many different aspects of one transformation, deter- 

 mined 1 >y an ultimate necessity, we arrive at a complete uni- 

 fication of them — a synthesis in which Evolution in general 

 and in detail becomes known as an implication of the law 



