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of different colours. Thus, as the figure of a 

 tapestry depends on each and all of the threads 

 which form it, so man in Nature depends on each 

 and all of the natural rhythms. If we drew the 

 threads out of the picture, the man would disappear, 

 just as in Nature, if the rhythms which compose 

 man were stopped, the human personality would 

 dissolve. 



When all the rhythms which give life to a man 

 are used up in energy, death comes, just as the 

 figure disappears from the tapestry if we draw out 

 all the threads from the woof. 



Between Nature and man there is a relation of 

 cause and effect ; it is a system of progressions, 

 as in music between the initial sound and the 

 melody ; systems of force in which neither the 

 man nor the melody has arrived at the limit 

 of progress, they each having an endless time 

 for their future. 



In the bosom of a mother-solution crystals of 

 typical forms have birth. Every solution has its 

 appropriate forms, because its chemical composition 

 always represents the same system of forces. If 

 an angle or corner is broken off a crystal, the 

 broken crystal will reform itself identically if it be 



placed in the mother-solution. 



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