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Excerpt from Symbiosis a Socio-Physiological Study of Evolution Ours is a busy age, and it has little patience with long dissertations. I have thought fit, therefore, to preface my remarks by as brief as possible a statement of my case. The main conclusion which I wish to enforce is that the normal relations between organisms, more particularly those having regard to food, involve, quite indispensably, a stupendous amount of systematic biological reciprocity, so that upon all organisms, be they high or low in the scale of life, there devolve definite duties and obligations, on pain of degeneration or destruction, via, to contribute in their several ways to the welfare of the organic family as a whole. I consider the normal growth of organic wealth in the shape of powers and capacities as not dissimilar, and not inferior in importance, to that of the normal growth of wealth in human societies. In either case wealth is due to effort, genius, and to the co-operation of all in the utilisation of natural riches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.