CYTOLOGY. 



having the universal process within itself. 

 And so we have to account ultimatelv for this 



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inner propulsion of Life to individuate itself 

 -it is therein fulfilling its part and place in 

 the movement of the All of which it must 

 make itself an integral portion in order to be 

 of the same. 



But we come back to the fact that the ear- 

 liest living individual in the universe, as far 

 as we now know, is the cell ; with it everv or- 



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ganism, however complex, starts on its career 

 of development; also with it the world of or- 

 ganisms starts visibly, moving along the lines 

 of its development. Man begins with incor- 

 porating himself in a cell, which has been 

 often called his prison, the original incarcer- 

 ation of his Psyche. It is the cell which con- 

 nects man (and all living existence) with the 

 past; he receives his inheritance of character 

 from his fathers through the cell; all the 

 progress of the ages has to pass into and out 

 of the cell, the World-Spirit indeed cannot be 

 excused from this cellular experience. It is, 

 then, the point of transition and of transmis- 

 sion from parent to child in all Life and what 

 Life carries arts, sciences, institutions, civ- 

 ilisations. We may conceive it likewise as 

 the connecting link between what has been and 

 what is to be, the little genetic dot which is 

 eternally propagating the past into the fu- 



