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and independence, already presents itself as a defi- 

 nite ' object. But such object is already concentrated 

 upon itself and presents tne semblance of internality 

 which here is centrality. The object gathers or collects 

 itself about its own center. At the same time, as being 

 but a partial manifestation of the total energizing prin- 

 ciple it is necessarily related through that principle to 

 other manifestations thereof that is, to other objects. 

 What the one object lacks the other possesses. They are 

 therefore complementary phases of the same totality. 

 Hence, each not only collects itself about its own center 

 but also, in its complementary reference to other objects, 

 finds its center also in each one of them and in turn 

 proves to be a center for each and all other objects. 



Thus, centrality is seen to be the primary form 

 assumed by the phase of unity throughout the total 

 development of the universal potency or World-Energy. 

 It is thus, too, that sphericity presents itself as the 

 natural, necessary form in the primary aggregations of 

 matter. 



But the World-Energy as Reason must in its self- 

 objectification take on all rational forms. Whence, in 

 the first place, the development of the other and more 

 complex regular solids through the process of crystal- 

 lization. 



In all these phases of aggregation, -however, it is to 

 be observed that there is change of external form with- 

 out marked alteration of internal character. Hence, the 

 process is thus far apparently altogether external and 

 mechanical. 



And yet, the characteristic of externality presents 

 a still further significant phase already incidentally 



