LIFE AS ADJUSTMENT 



tion within it would get out of correspond- 

 ence with the agencies and processes without 

 It ; and the Hfe would cease/' So in higher ani- 

 lals, " every act of locomotion implies the ex- 

 fpenditure of certain internal mechanical forces, 

 [adapted in amounts and directions to balance 

 or out-balance certain external ones. The re- 

 cognition of an object is impossible without a 

 [harmony between the changes constituting per- 

 ception, and particular properties coexisting in 

 ithe environment. Escape from enemies sup- 

 [poses motions within the organism, related in 

 kind and rapidity to motions without it. De- 

 Istruction of prey requires a particular combina- 

 rtion of subjective actions, fitted in degree and 

 succession to overcome a group of objective 

 ^ones. And so with those countless automatic 

 processes exemplified in works on animal in- 

 stinct." ^ And similarly, as will appear still more 

 :learly when we come to treat especially of the 

 [evolution of intelligence, " the empirical gen- 

 jcralization that guides the farmer in his rotation 

 >f crops, serves to bring his actions into con- 

 fcord with certain of the actions going on in 

 ►lants and soil ; and the rational deductions of 

 :he educated navigator who calculates his posi- 

 tion at sea, constitute a series of mental acts by 



1 [Spencer, Principles of Biology, vol. i. Part I. chap- 

 Jr V. § 28.] 



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