180 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



infinite variety that Nature presents homogeneity 

 among men is conceivable ? Nature, becoming ever 

 better known and revealing herself under new and 

 varied aspects, must lay under contribution all 

 human brains, as one, in order to deposit a note 

 of her infinite harmonies in each separate part of 

 thought a note that will be different according to 

 time and space ; that the note of day will not be 

 that of night, that of to-morrow the same as that of 

 yesterday, that of yesterday and to-morrow as that 

 of to-day. 



Cerebral structure yields to and combines with 

 the model of Nature, as water to the form of the 

 vessel that holds it. The progress of human society, 

 as we shall see elsewhere, consists chiefly in the con- 

 tinually increasing differentiation of intelligences, 

 which will imply a greater correspondence with 

 the external. By the ever- widening differentiation, 

 however, of mankind I do not mean that they 

 are therefore any less consolidated, but, on the 

 contrary, will feel more united, since the same 

 solidarity that exists in the natural laws will exist 

 in their own consciousness, the outcome of such 

 laws. 



Intelligence will end by adapting herself to 

 Nature, allying herself to, and even confounding 

 herself with her, as our planet is surrounded and 

 impregnated by the atmosphere that encloses it. 



