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these we shall have to pass over. We behold 

 the leading fact of the self-separation of the 

 body starting in the nucleus which re-unites 

 the protoplasm and forms the new cell. A 

 cellular image of the Psychosis we may well 

 see in this process, which thus reveals its 

 psychical phase. 



A good deal of biological discussion at the 

 present time turns on this nucleus. The com- 

 plete cell has it, but the incomplete cell seems 

 to show it in a state of gradual formation. 

 The Bacterion, probably the least developed 

 living cell of Life, possesses the nucleus only 

 in a very incipient stage, if at all some in- 

 vestigators see it, some do not. The transi- 

 tion out of the pre-cellular Life into the cel- 

 lular, would appear to take place in the nu- 

 cleus, which thus comes to be the primal cen- 

 ter of vital individuation. A little mass of 

 protoplasm which at the start shows no dif- 

 ference between nucleus and cytoplasm (or 

 cell-stuff) somehow gets nucleated and there- 

 with soon forms a cellular body. The primor- 

 dial living individual of the planet is then 

 born the cell, at first quite isolated, inde- 

 pendent, unassociated. Again the question 

 rises, Whence this nucleus with its power of 

 self-separation and incorporation? Mani- 

 festly here is another node of Life in which 

 Psyche is directly at work, but can be seen 



