148 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



that, since the cosmos, continues to impel something 

 reserved and internal, that attains to-day its 

 maximum of progress in the human form, pre- 

 carious it may be, but whose outlook is immense, 

 in view of a boundless past and an illimitable 

 future. 



The whole theory of evolution in our planet 

 is a very small part of this science of universal 

 energy. 



Medium, adaptation, selection, and heredity are, 

 as it were, slight indicators that perhaps mark the 

 tonality or beat ordained by time, in which this 

 irresistible force is being developed. 



Thus considered, let us see what is the value of 

 natural selection, called by Darwin struggle for life. 



Let us not forget that the theory of terrestrial 

 evolution takes its origin from universal mechanics. 



One of the things that has caused so much 

 confusion and abuse is the somewhat unfortunate 

 term given by Darwin to natural selection, as the 

 struggle for life. This expression is so graphic and 

 concise, and appeals so easily and widely to general 

 imagination, that it was stereotyped immediately, 

 absorbing and summing up, for most minds, the 

 whole theory of evolution. So it happens that 

 from a somewhat unhappy phrase, from that which 

 was only one element to illustrate a theory, arose 

 a series of errors, a false interpretation, which 



