218 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



through living in unhealthy conditions, in re- 

 producing under such conditions establish the 

 bankruptcy of the family, susceptible, however, of 

 regeneration if the want of equilibrium has not 

 passed certain limits, but provided a strict regimen 

 is observed as regards nutrition and reproduction ; 

 then the same primitive N formula of the family or 

 of the individual can be reproduced, that is to say, 

 when this again recovers its state of greater 

 equilibrium. 



