22 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



Organic Adaptation 



The initial movement of the organic adaptation 

 has its origin in the same cosmic energy ; it is a 

 chapter of the total evolution of the universe. 

 The correspondence with the external medium, or 

 the adaptation of organised beings, is the most 

 constant phenomenon of life. When plants and 

 animals change their climate they change their 

 adaptation. If the adaptation takes place, the 

 animal or the plant goes on living ; if not, it dies. 

 The entity that is not capable of adapting itself, 

 the organisation which is not mobile enough for 

 this constant work of adjustment, disappears. 

 Animals and plants that live on land or water 

 represent a perfect correspondence with the medium 

 in which they have been evolved. The lungs and 

 the heart of man are adapted to atmospherical 

 pressure, and there are persons who are much 

 upset by a slight change in this same pressure ; 

 the ascent of high mountains is not supportable by 

 everybody, and going up in a balloon any consider- 

 able height may not only produce vertigo but 

 haemorrhage, for want of equilibrium between the 

 internal and the external pressure, which causes an 

 accidental failure of adaptation. 



Eyes are an adaptation to light ; animals which 



