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force, whether these are identical or not, 

 this reality exists outside of the forms, 

 time and space, in which matter ap- 

 pears. But whether matter and phys- 

 ical force exist per se, or are mere tran- 

 sient phenomena or what their origin 

 and purpose is, these are questions that 

 Bjorklund never was granted the time 

 to discuss. 



Bjorklund's grand conception of the 

 relationship between all living beings 

 and their organic upbuilding of larger 

 conscious units, where each individual 

 of higher order is the sum total of all 

 its constituent members of lower or- 

 der, is certainly a most helpful and 

 inspiring addition to our theory of 

 evolution. 



But the question why an evolution is 

 necessary at all for beings that are con- 

 stituent members in The Perfect Being, 

 is hardly satisfactorily answered by 

 Bjorklund. His ingenious explanation, 

 fully presented toward the end of this 

 volume, still leaves us in a dilemma. 

 Bjorklund holds that Perfect Love has 



