LIFE AS ADJUSTMENT 



^Hf adjacent organisms which stand to them in 

 ^^he relations of enemies, competitors, or prey ; 

 but it also presents highly coordinated actions 

 on the part of these organisms, which must be 

 met by highly coordinated actions on the part 

 of the former. Thus with the increase of the 

 organism in heterogeneity, definiteness, and co- 

 herence, its environment increases in heteroge- 

 neity and presents more definite and coherent 

 relations to which the organism must adjust it- 

 self. And in this way the heterogeneous, defi- 

 * nite, and coherent activity of the organism is 

 again enhanced. The corollary from this group 

 of truths is one which will nearly concern us 

 when we come to treat of the Evolution of So- 

 ciety : it is this — the greater the amount of 

 progress already made, the more rapidly must 

 progress go on. 



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