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instead of affecting adjustment. It represents the psychic 

 forces adverse to the environment, and is equivalent 

 to the natural characters of the biologists. Emotion is 

 the subjective expression of the elements in the environ- 

 ment adverse to the adjusted being. All new forms of 

 natural adjustment are wrought out through these forces. 



3. The present environment does not act on men through 

 natural, but only through acquired, characters. There spring 

 up in each environment traditions, customs, and habits which 

 must be retaught to each generation. 



4. Emotion and character do not complete themselves 

 in present adjustment. They impel toward a super-adjust- 

 ment in which future additional elements can be harmonized. 



5. Natural characters are made active only by surplus 

 energy. A deficit renders them dormant and causes con- 

 duct to be determined by the acquired characters of the 

 present environment. Persons and classes living under a 

 perpetual deficit have no opportunity to reveal their natural 

 character. They must be controlled by tradition and imita- 

 tion until a surplus destroys the dominance of acquired 

 characters. 



