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reached, when again division takes place; and so on 

 forever, however provided that the medium, or 

 environment (physicochemical constitution, temper- 

 ature and pressure), remain in every way favorable 

 to the process. 



With no changes in the environment, all the result- 

 ing dual-systems will be exactly alike. 



However, though the pattern of the Z-system 

 (of the dual-system) is definitely determined by the 

 conditions that prevail at its inception, such con- 

 ditions according to the degree of their simplicity or 

 complexity predetermining whether the pattern that 

 ultimately may result will be simple or complex, the 

 pattern may be modified by the environment; that is, 

 a simple dual system in a more complex environment 

 may become more complex if the pattern has not 

 become so rigidly established that only the limited 

 sets of catenary (and multiple simultaneous) re- 

 actions proper to that pattern may take place. This 

 rigidity of pattern obviously means the establishment 

 of a definite balance of relations. 



It is inevitable that sooner or later in the endless 

 chain of dual-systems that (favorable conditions 

 prevailing) results from a given initial formation of 

 the very first one of these dual-systems from con- 

 ditions of a critical concentration of ions such as 

 theory postulates — it is inevitable that sooner or later 



