34 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



If we add this fact, like a thousand others which 

 can be quoted, to the regular figures which the 

 sand forms in the crystal bowl on its vibration 

 with a violin bow, the relation to forces is readily 

 understood. If the forces were not rhythmical 

 and constant the figures would not be regular, 

 nor would they have the consistency of form. 

 From the lowest organic bodies to man himself, 

 everything evolves and lives in the bosom of 

 Nature, like crystals in the bosom of a mother- 

 solution. 



Comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, 

 and embryology, with their phylogenic and ontogenic 

 branches, would be incomprehensible without this 

 harmony and constancy of rhythms. 



In a word, the theory of evolution would not 

 exist, whereas, thanks to these harmonies, all 

 beings are reproduced with typical forms. 



Man and societies can degenerate by falsifying 

 their natural conditions, but, like broken crystals, 

 they also reconstruct themselves in virtue of the 

 constancy and persistency of these harmonic 

 rhythms in the bosom of Nature. 



The cell, the primordial organism, has its form 

 adjusted to a rhythm, and every rhythm has its 

 peculiar form, just as every mother-solution has its 

 crystal form. The cell is in the organic world what 

 the crystal is in the inorganic, and the phenomena 



