AND ITS SELF-CONSERVATION". 247 



expression or manifestation of the universal Potency is 

 riven within itself, dissolves and passes into other phases 

 of the manifestation of that Potency. 



Thus the universal Potency, as the unchanging Total- 

 ity, gives rise through its own activity to ceaseless change. 

 Hence, it might be said that the one changeless fact is 

 the infinitely complex fact of change. And this is 

 doubtless what Aristotle meant by the phrase: "The 

 unmoved mover of the world." 



The particularized form is, within its limits, a mani- 

 festation, an utterance or outerance of the inner univer- 

 sality of the World-Energy. It is an object. But with its 

 limitations it is an object among other objects. All 

 these objects are> however, but the discrete phases of the 

 universal or continuous totality. They are thus far in a 

 state of likeness and equilibrium or rest as toward each 

 other. They bear toward each other, therefore, a two- 

 fold relation, a relation at once positive and nega- 

 tive. As imperfect but mutually complementary phases 

 of the manifestation of the totality they attract and tend 

 towards fusion, the actual accomplishment of which 

 must involve the dissolution of each and every existing 

 form. But each is at the same time in some measure the 

 actual manifestation of the universal potency or World- 

 Energy. And this is the ground of its existence, more 

 or less prolonged, as a distinct and seemingly inde- 

 pendent unit. It is precisely as the manifestation or 

 present realization of the universal potency, indeed, that 

 these particularized forms possess the power of self- 

 preservation even momentarily. And this power is devel- 

 oped as cohesion within the given unit on the one hand, 

 and on the other as resistance to and hence exclusion 

 of other units. 



