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"Life lias been compared to a beautiful tapestry, woven in intricate 

 design of many threads and colors. By means of physics, chemistry , 

 physiology, anatomy, embryology and genetics we unravel this texture, 

 separate its constituent threads and colors, but lose the pattern as a 

 whole. These analytical sciences liave enormously increased our know- 

 ledge of life's constituent elements and processes, but the pattern of 

 the tapestry is usually neglected or ignored. " 



"Living things are analyzed into organs, tissues, cells, chromo- 

 somes, genes, and their functions into tropisms, reflexes and forced 

 movements, while the synthesis of all of these elements into the broader 

 aspects of the organism, and its relation to environment are too much 

 neglected. Of course, analysis is necessary, but so also is synthesis 

 if we are to see organisms as living beings. We lose sight of these 

 larger aspects of life in the process of analysis, unless we reverse 

 this procedure from time to time and consider organistns and environ- 

 tnent synthetically". 



". . . no philosopher, scientist, or average human being can avoid 

 asking the question WHY, or fail to feel tlmt tlie end, goal, meaning or 

 purpose of any phenomenon in nature is the most significant inquiry 

 that can be made about it. ... In his 'De Patibus Anitnalium' (Aristotle) 

 maintained tliat the essence of a living animal is found not in what it is, 

 or how it acts, but why it is as it is and acts as it does. " 



E. G. Conklin 1944 Trans. N. Y. 

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