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series in the absolute organism. This 

 scries is such that the higher beings 

 form the conditions and supports of 

 the lower. This connection must be 

 entirely reversed during evolution 

 itself, which naturally proceeds from 

 the lower to the higher. In time there- 

 fore the generation and development 

 of the lower beings must precede that 

 of the higher. We have also seen that 

 the evolution of the former is identical 

 with the upbuilding of the organisms 

 of the latter, and we understand now 

 that the whole process must essentially 

 follow the course which, as we have 

 previously shown, it does in fact, actu- 

 ally take. 



It is further the inherent idea of time 

 that man's eternal entity cannot ap- 

 pear w r hole and undivided. He must 

 plot it out along a series of successive 

 moments which make room for only 

 one cell-generation at a time. As the 

 cell's entity again has a less compre- 

 hensive content than man's, its lifetime 

 must be correspondingly shorter. 



