Thoughts to Build On

Chapter 16

How To Survive

We hear a lot about survival, these days. Sur-
vival from this danger. Survival from that danger. It all
sounds so ominous.

Perhaps we had better make our own do-it-
yourself survival kit.
Let's start by looking at history and see how
survival has been accomplished-starting all the way back
to the beginning of life on this planet.
Basically there have been two consecutive steps
to survival throughout the ages:
(1) FIRST... ADJUST to your existing
environment.
(2) Having first adjusted, CONSTANTLY
IMPROVE what you then are.
Let's see how these two survival steps worked
in the past and how they will work in the present.
First, the principle of adjusting to existing
environment: In prehistoric ages and throughout the long