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there be, must be merely the unity of universal conflict. 

 Or, if we attempt still further to merge the infinitely 

 small and the infinitely large into a supra-absolute one, 

 both vanish into something wholly incomprehensible. 



Here, then, our analysis of nature's beginning ends 

 in insuperable barriers. But this brief analysis is not 

 without value if it serves to emphasize that the present, 



diversity 



cooperation 



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PERFECTION 



Compulsion 

 Stability 

 Power 

 Unity 



architecture 



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FIGURE i. DIAGRAM TO ILLUSTRATE THE CONCEPT OF EVOLUTION. Note 

 the involved dual concepts of relative and absolute, positive and negative, 

 and the opposing gradients converging towards zero and diverging toward 

 infinity. 



