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wing this natural course, a pulsation of organic life results, for the inversion of the curve,

from one hemisphere to the other, is not resolved by a total compensation: the extent
of cultivated lands and the density of the population clearly turn the scale in favour of

the northern hemisphere which, as a result, intercepts and emits more radiations.

The alternation of day and night plays a role also, especially with regard to the quality

of the radiations. The day is consecrated, above all, to mundane life, to action, with all
the negative emotions it often entails; the night to private life, where more positive

emotions tend to reign.

These two movements are responsible for the creation of a special mode of

absorption of the solar energies which reach organic life after having gone through all
the transformations that occur in the heart of the atmosphere. Besides, the solar

energies meant for the Earth, follow their own rhythm, in which the rotation of the Sun

on its own axis plays a primordial role. Among the energies received from the Sun, one

must not forget those which reach our planet after having been reflected by its satellite.
Here, the complexity of the rhythms and the shaded influence it exercises over organic

life are more evident. This influence is so striking that men who live in constant contact

with nature seem to take it always into consideration.

These summary indications hardly give a precise idea