CHAPTEE II 



GENERAL ADAPTATION 



WHEN monistic philosophy studies separately 

 astronomical, geological, biological, and socio- 

 logical evolution, it is done to facilitate the work, 

 and not because the evolutions are in any way 

 different from each other. All these divisions are 

 integrated in the main evolution of the cosmos 

 there is only one evolution, as there is only one 

 energy. 



The blood which circulates through our veins, 

 and the energy which thought represents, form one 

 unity with the cosmic forces. 



Crude matter, as well as live matter, are both 

 the product and adaptation to the medium. There 

 is no solution of continuity between the pheno- 

 mena of organic and inorganic substance all is one. 

 That which changes is the form ; but the virtue, 

 the essence, of the thing is the same ; they are dis- 

 tinct phenomena of a single energy. 



The same unity which exists between force and 



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