All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Fort's writing style
Fort suggests that there is a Super-Sargasso Sea into which all lost things go and justifies his theories by noting that they fit the data as well as the conventional explanations. Fort died only hours afterward probably of leukemia. Wilson describes Fort as "a patron of cranks" and also argues that running through Fort's work is "the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity.

Fort's books sold well and are still in print today. Today the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena.