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can only have its ground in an internal vital destination ; 

 it exhibits, at the same time, an independence of all 

 external influences which testifies to the internally given 

 force of vitality. The manner and way in which the 

 internal immaterial nature of life manifests itself more 

 particularly in the Phenomenon of Rejuvenescence, we may 

 call, in the true sense of the word, a reminding (Erin- 

 nerung), being the exertion of a power which, in opposi- 

 tion to the outward revelation and superannuation of life 

 in appearance, grasps anew the ideal (innere) destination 

 and turns it outward with new force, in order to carry it 

 over every onesidedness or imperfection in the external 

 representation, to repeated (and in proportion to the pro- 

 gress of the development) more and more refined com- 

 plication of the original vital purpose. The recollection 

 (or reminding) of the inherent design of life presents 

 itself to us within the determinate stage of development 

 in the repeated representation of the same vital form ; it 

 presents itself to us, retrogressively, in the reproduction 

 of long overpassed, or, in advancing development, in the 

 production of new vital forms, which are, in both cases, 

 however, involved in the original destination. Must we 

 not call it a reminding (or recollection) when, in the 

 course of generation, the old specific nature returns to 

 life with each new individual? It is not still more 

 strikingly a reminding when, in the course of the Reju- 

 venescences, a long-relinquished parent-form suddenly 

 returns to existence? as we have seen in the striking 

 back of varieties and the recurrence of hybrids into the 

 mother- species, with so remarkable an instance of which 

 we have become acquainted in Cytisus Adami ? The 

 advance to new shapes, proportioned to the course of 

 development, brought about through the Rejuvenescence, 

 has been minutely examined in the metamorphoses of the 

 individual being, where it is most accessible to our limited 

 observation; does not this reveal most distinctly the inter- 

 nal preservation and making good of the original vital des- 

 tination, through all intermediate destinations which are 



