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  THE 
  REALM 
  OF 
  ORGANISMS 
  CONTRASTED 
  

  

  Albe 
  they 
  endlesse 
  seem 
  in 
  estimation, 
  

  

  Than 
  to 
  recount 
  the 
  seas 
  posterity; 
  

  

  So 
  fertile 
  be 
  the 
  floods 
  in 
  generation, 
  

  

  So 
  huge 
  their 
  numbers, 
  and 
  so 
  numberlesse 
  the.r 
  nation. 
  

  

  We 
  shall 
  come 
  later 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  difficult 
  problem 
  of 
  in- 
  

   dividuality 
  or 
  species; 
  but 
  our 
  view 
  of 
  Nature 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  

   nut 
  take 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  species 
  are 
  multitudinous 
  

   ; 
  t 
  a 
  Ty 
  represent 
  discontinuous 
  individualities, 
  with 
  

   much 
  more 
  constancy 
  than 
  the 
  earlier 
  Darwinians 
  supposed 
  

   5nn*us 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  There 
  are 
  as 
  many 
  species 
  as 
  there 
  were 
  

   fdeasTn 
  th 
  Divine 
  Mind 
  , 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  a 
  good 
  

   species 
  is 
  like 
  a 
  clear-cut 
  idea. 
  At 
  the 
  other 
  extreme 
  of 
  

   ompari 
  on, 
  it 
  is 
  like 
  a 
  chemical 
  element, 
  but 
  on 
  a 
  higher 
  

   lie. 
  As 
  Goethe 
  said, 
  The 
  one 
  thing 
  Nature 
  seems 
  to 
  

   an 
  at 
  is 
  Individuality; 
  yet 
  she 
  cares 
  nothing 
  for 
  indmd- 
  

   uals 
  " 
  If 
  we 
  personify 
  < 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  ', 
  it 
  must 
  at 
  least 
  

   be 
  as 
  an 
  artist 
  with 
  inexhaustible 
  imaginative 
  resources, 
  

   with 
  extraordinary 
  mastery 
  of 
  materials. 
  

  

  But 
  in 
  the 
  prodigal 
  wealth 
  of 
  individually, 
  it 
  u 
  iota 
  

   demonic 
  confusion, 
  but 
  a 
  rational 
  order 
  that 
  we 
  see 
  The 
  

   species 
  are 
  remarkably 
  unique 
  and 
  discontinuous, 
  each 
  with 
  

   a' 
  Lacter 
  of 
  its 
  own, 
  yet 
  they 
  are 
  often 
  like 
  stages 
  in 
  ^in- 
  

   dividual 
  development, 
  and 
  they 
  can 
  o 
  ten 
  be 
  classing 
  n 
  a 
  

   logical 
  series. 
  Linna3us 
  established 
  his 
  Systema 
  Nature 
  

   q 
  ut 
  apart 
  from 
  any 
  evolutionist 
  conception, 
  and 
  though 
  the 
  

   Lt 
  of 
  genetic 
  relationship 
  lies 
  behind 
  every 
  so-called 
  nat- 
  

   nral 
  LScation, 
  our 
  present 
  point 
  is 
  simply 
  that 
  Each 
  o 
  

   her 
  works 
  has 
  an 
  essence 
  of 
  its 
  own; 
  each 
  of 
  her 
  phenomena 
  

   a 
  special 
  characterisation; 
  and 
  yet 
  their 
  diversity 
  is 
  

  

  unity 
  ". 
  

  

  