134 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



energies, which are transformed by virtue of that 

 same law of equilibrium, are the sum of the physical 

 and chemical labours of reaction, the inference is 

 that a change has necessarily been produced in the 

 cellular chemical mechanism of the hen, equivalent 

 to the quantity of heat transformed. In this 

 change in the equilibrium of the chemical 

 mechanism lies the loss of immunity. 



In the case of the frog the problem is the same ; 

 on raising the animal's temperature one upsets all 

 the chemistry of its cells, since it is not possible 

 to change the temperature in a chemical, and 

 above all a chemico-organic, compound, without 

 exciting a corresponding change in its molecular 

 dynamics. 



Humanity, in the absurd social regimen that it 

 suffers, is like the hen in Pasteur's experiment, or 

 the frog in that of Gibier, or like the hens, pigeons, 

 and rats in the other experiments ; that is, men 

 lose forces which alter their definite chemical 

 combination, so as to render them thereby 

 susceptible to every kind of disease. 



Living beings are machines with the property 

 of transforming potential energy (nourishment) 

 into useful force (life). 



Let us suppose a chemical combination, N, of 

 an animal, say a hen, as in the experiment cited, 

 or rather man, in whom we are interested ; but in 



