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organization throughout all living masses. It is certain that 

 the local functions of the substance belong not alone to the 

 locality, not alone to the cell, not alone to the tissue or organ, 

 — but to the mass ; and again that they belong not alone to 

 this, or even to its direct descendants, or to the family, but to 

 the race. It is the life history alone of the substance as race 

 substance that can reveal the full significance of even fleeting 

 local organizations. 



With all its complex interrelations M^hich seem to form so 

 complete a cycle, the individual is in truth but a fragmentary 

 part of a vast complex modulation of structure and function. 

 However separate as mass from its race relatives, it is abso- 

 lutely inseparable as part of the web of sequence in race phe- 

 nomena. The strange incomplete, yet redundant, complexity 

 of sequence we call an organism, is, as pointed out earlier, but 

 a ceaseless becoming, of which the adult, or all stages, form a 

 recurrent grouping of phenomena — a kind of rhythmic wave 

 in continuous habit. It is thoroughly transitional, for in it 

 nothing truly begins, and nothing truly ends. But the being 

 is more obvious than the becoming ; the structures and phases 

 when viewed in gross appear more stable than evanescent ; — 

 and so the gross result produced upon our perceptions is a kind 

 of typical stability or homogeneity. What is seen and described 

 at any given time is, however, a net result of composite impres- 

 sions beyond our analysis. Form and structure are as much 

 illusions born of our own limitations of perception as has been 

 our conventional mode of seeing and representing apparent 

 modes of motion. Thus have arisen our types, by convention, 

 and yet in a true way after all, if thoroughly understood to be 

 symbolic. The form of flame, or wave, or fountain can be char- 

 acteristically expressed spite of all the local evanescence of 

 forming substance. But this is form symbol, not form fact. 

 Just as in Protozoa a characteristic form or forms, with general 

 relations of parts, is maintained in the mass notwithstanding 

 ceaseless flux of formative substance, so is it in all organisms, 

 only, in most, the structures and phenomena which control our 

 attention and the grosser interdependences of these are less 

 patently unstable. And it must be remembered that with the 



