THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



are based on internal regularity and harmony; 

 such a life that carries in the simplest cell such 

 an "abundance of features" this may indeed be 

 able to give always exactly the answer to the 

 thousand upon thousand of questions concern- 

 ing adjustment on this planet, and can do this 

 again and again in the overflowing abundance 

 of its wealth of forms and always hit the nail 

 on the head. These radiolaria themselves are 

 not large wonders of adjustment. Their struct- 

 ures as a whole have remained to today bounded 

 by single cells. The way is long on the side 

 of adaptation from such a radiolaria to a fish. 

 When "the form capacity" breaks forth there is 

 something almost playful in the results. But 

 the most marvelous thing that appears in this 

 "play" is the boundless wealth of possibilities. 

 It is the fanciful child out of which life will 

 forge the strong thinking man competent to fill 

 his place. What appeared as "play" in these 

 four thousand forms, was indeed the crowning 

 treasure of life, out of which all the marvelous 

 wealth of forms of the higher stages would 

 proceed, the exhaustless treasure on which ad- 

 justment rests and out of which life can be 

 modified as the demands of the environment be- 

 come greater upon the myriads of individuals 

 thrown upon this many featured planet in a 

 fierce battle for growth and room. Without this 

 pow|er wRich displays itself in these four tlibu- 

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