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plant and in the animal and for that matter in man? 

 Do they not break through boundary lines and over- 

 lap? Does not something of a personality, a spirit or 

 soul, appear in the widely differing forms of all three 

 of them? 



Aristotle says in explanation of this line of thought : 



"Now all things in the universe are so somehow 

 ordered together, whatever swims in the sea, or 

 flies in the air, or grows on the earth, but not all in 

 like fashion; nothing exists apart and without some 

 kind of relation with the rest, for all things are or- 

 dered in relation with one end. " 



Hegel writes as follows in Philosophy of Religion: 



"it belongs to the very nature of unity that it should 

 thus break up into parts," '.'•'■•;•':■■'■ 



and that each of these parts should have distinct 

 relations of its own, which become eventually one 

 complete scheme or whole, and with 



"this individuality goes in each case the natural 

 impulse of self-preservation — what Spinoza calls 

 the conatus in suo esse perseverandi, the effort to" 



maintain its own being ; but why should not we say of 

 the tree as of man, only in different degree, that here 



"the conatus in suo esse perseverandi swells into a 

 j demand for happiness, for a perfect completion and 



manifestation of its special being in which nothing 

 shall be left to be wished or hoped for?" 



