Note 590 — Chapter XXV

Nor do I see any method for bringing into our equilibrium picture the control which the environment retains over values by its power to eliminate those groups whose choices vary too widely from the norms of "survival-necessities." Vide Giddings, Principles of Sociology, ed. 1905, p. 20; Carver, Essays in Social Justice, passim. I think that the range of choices compatible with survival is very wide. Moreover, "adaptation" is not a simple matter of adjustment to the physiographic environment. It includes adjustment to the social values, both of the group in question and of other groups.