80 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



uplifts, or alternate subsidences, in the earth's crust. 

 in its terrestrial adjustment to the constant shrinkage 

 of the globe as it lost heat ; so the big-horned sheep has 

 been evolved from its primitive ancestor, to its present 

 form, by a series of variations, in its hereditary an- 

 atomy and physiology; and that those variations best 

 adapted to the environment, or habitat, were the ones 

 to survive and perpetuate themselves. The unadapted 

 variations gradually died out as the evolution pro- 

 ceeded. While the environment changed, from time to 

 time, under the same evolutionary law of constant re- 

 adjustment to new conditions, due to the condensation 

 of the matter of the sun and earth, yet the environ- 

 ment is the more constant, and persistent factor, the 

 animal being the more mobile, and variable, and incon- 

 stant factor. 



In evolution the environment never adapts itself to 

 the animal, not even to so complex, and seemingly 

 powerful an organism as man. If it did, then there 

 would be no natural selection in the evolution of organ- 

 isms. The surface of the earth, the temperature, the 

 humidity, and many other forms of the environment 

 are in constant change. But there is no change of any 

 kind ever taking place with reference to an adjust- 

 ment of the total environment to the welfare of man. as 

 man himself views his welfare. The wind is not tem- 

 pered because the shorn lamb needs a higher tempera- 

 ture. For instance, when the glacial spoch had covered 

 the northern hemisphere with ice, all life, in that region, 

 not adapted to that condition, was destroyed; only 

 the Arctic flora and fauna could survive. 



The shepherd has his flock shorn in the spring time, 

 when the subsequent natural temperature is rising into 

 the heat of summer. But it is absurd to say that this 



